UP chairman ‘dies after scuffle with local Jubo League president’
The chairman of Podua Union Parishad of Daudkandi upazila died allegedly after a scuffle with a local Jubo League leader in Syedkhar Kandi area of the upazila this afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Babul Hossain Talukder, chairman of Podua Union Parishad of Daudkandi upazila, Md Fayaz Uddin Fazlu, an UP member and also a witness of that incident, told our local correspondent.
“We were distributing rice to the VGF card holders, when Rabiul, president of Jubo League Podua Union Parishad unit, came and engaged in a scuffle with us regarding an earlier issue,” the UP member said.
“At one stage, Chairman Babul fainted and fell down,” he said.
Locals took him to Daudkandi health complex but doctors declared him dead, he added.
The body was sent to Comilla Medical Hospital morgue for autopsy.
“The cause of death will be revealed after post-mortem. We are investigating the matter,” Shakhawat Hossain, additional superintendent of police in Comilla, said.
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