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BSF returns Bangladeshi
Our Correspondent, Kushtia
Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) on Saturday night returned a Bangladeshi who was picked up by them from Ramkrishnapur border point in Daulatpur upazila in the afternoon. A BSF team from Sarkarpara Camp under Jalangi PS in Murshidabad district of Pashimbangla caught Ripon Mollah at about 4.00pm when he was collecting grass near the border. Son of Bazlu Mollah of Charpara village in the upazila, Ripon was a farmer. Nayek Subedar Abdul Owahab of BGB Ramkrishnapur Camp said they sent a letter immediately protesting the incident and asked for flag meeting in the evening. Later, the flag meeting was held at about 8.30pm where the BSF handed over Ripon.
9 get life for murder
Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
Rajshahi speedy trial tribunal yesterday sentenced nine people to life term imprisonment for killing a mango trader of Chapainawabganj four years ago. The convicts are nephew of the deceased Kashem Ali, Kajem Ali and Azam Ali and other relatives Mintu, Lal Chand, Tofayel, Abdul Latif, Badal Ali and Tawfik Ali. Judge Shamsul Alam Khan also acquitted two others of the charges. The aforesaid 9 killed mango trader Mofiz Uddin of Rasulpur village in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj on 16 June 2009 following a feud over ownership of a mango orchard.
Clinic vandalised
Our Correspondent, Chandpur
Relatives vandalised a clinic in Kachua upazila of the district hours after the death of a newborn baby yesterday morning. Sumi Begum, wife of a Kuwait expatriate of Sreerampur village, was admitted to Modern Pathology Clinic at Paschim Bazar following labour pain at around 7:00am. As there was no doctor at the clinic in the morning, Sumi gave birth to a baby normally. However, the condition of the newborn worsened soon after and later it died allegedly for absence of doctors at the clinic.
13 arrested on border
Our Correspondent, Benapole, Jessore
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrest 13 people from a place near Putkhali border yesterday while they were being taken to India illegally. Kayum Ali Sarder, officer in-charge of Benapole Port police station said a BGB team raided the area and caught eleven men and two women. However, the traffickers managed to flee the scene.
5 held with arms in Bogra
Our Correspondent, Bogra
Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested five alleged criminals in Ghorapatti area near Circuit House in the town on Saturday afternoon and seized a foreign made pistol, four bullets and two knives from their possession. The arrestees are Rakib, 21, son of Abdur Razzak of Nataipara, Nantu, 28, and his younger brother Jhantu, 26, son of late Shukur Ali of Phultola, Nazmul , 28, son of Abdul Jabbar of Phultola in the town and Tuhin, 18, son of Mojibur Rahman of Darogapara village in Munshiganj district.
Guard killed, money looted
Our Correspondent, Dinajpur
Criminals looted Tk 66.32 lakh after killing the night guard of a business centre in Joypurhat district town early yesterday. The dead is Md Abul Kalam Azad, 55, of Madarganj area in the municipality and night guard of British American Tobacco Company Ltd at Dhanmondi area in the town. Quoting Md Forhat Hossain manager of the company, police said the staff unlocked the office door on the second floor of the 4th storey building in the area in the morning and found Azad's body lying on the floor. The volt was also found broken. The gang took away the money after breaking the volt in the 3rd floor of the building, said the manager.
Train links restored
Our Correspondent, Rangpur
Train communications of the district, which were suspended with the rest of the country following a derailment, resumed after six hour yesterday afternoon. Mozammel Haque, superintendent of Rangpur Railway Station, said the train services were suspended after the engine and two coaches of a cargo train bound for Lalmonirhat went off the track in Babupara area around 9:30am. However, none was injured in the accident.
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