Staff Reporter :The overall law and order situation has deteriorated as a series of killing, including rights activists, bloggers, professors and rival political workers, are taking places almost everyday across the country.As a result, a sense of insecurity, triggered by miscreant’s attack on the one hand and police access on the other, has been created among the people. According to police sources, at least 1220 people have been killed in around last four months in the country. Though the law enforcing agencies are trying their best to counter the attacks, they could not control the situation yet. In January, 267 people were killed, while 291 in February, 307 in March and the rest 355 up to April 29. In the latest incident, a gang of unidentified criminals shot dead two people at Rajibpur village in Sadar Upazila in Laxmipur district on Friday.When contacted Assistant Superintendent of Police (Sadar Circle) Nasim Mia said bullet-riddled bodies of Syed Hossain Manik, 45, son of late Sekandar Mia, and Kamrul Islam, 40, son of Shamsul Karim of the village, were found in the area early in the morning. On information, Police recovered the bodies from near the house of one Dr Yusuf around 8:00am.Police suspected that they were killed following internal feud over drug peddling. The bodies were sent to the Laxmipur Hospital morgue for autopsy.Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Friday said it is a big challenge for the members of law enforcing agencies to tackle the targeted and secret killing.Replying to a query about any development in connection with Kalabagan double murder case, he claimed the investigation is being carried out in a proper way.”I’m unable to make comment whether anyone has been detected in connection with the double murder. I shall inform you later,” he told journalists at his Dhanmondi residence. Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Friday said those who want to capture the state power in unconstitutional way, they are committing big crimes like secret and targeted killing.Meanwhile, the government and police have denied the existence of any international militant group in Bangladesh.While the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) claims the country is in ‘danger’ in the wake of the murders of a number of writers, publishers and online activists by suspected militants over the past one year.BNP Vice-Chairman Abdullah Al Noman at a function on Friday said this government is committing crimes against humanity through murder and forced disappearances of men. “Those who have remained missing will never comeback,” he said. However, the Prime Minister in her Parliament speech on Wednesday hailed the police and other law-enforcing agencies for their ‘successes’ in solving the recent terrorist attacks in different parts of the country.Writer-blogger Avijit Roy, online activist Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, bloggers Niladri Chatterjee Niloy, Ananta Bijoy Das, and Avijit’s Publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan were killed in a similar fashion last year.Online activist Nazimuddin Samad,, Prof Rezaul Karim Siddiquee of Rajshahi University and gay activists Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Tonoy were hacked to death this month.
