Staff Reporter :Nine persons, including three Awami League leaders, were killed in different incidents in five districts on Sunday.In Khagrachhari, two motorcyclists were killed when a truck rammed their vehicle at Bailyachhari in Matiranga upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as Joyonto Tripura,22, and Sukhendra Tripura,45. Police said that a rod-laden truck hit the motorbike from the opposite direction in the area around 10:30am, leaving Joyonto and Sukhendra dead on the spot. Police recovered the bodies and sent those to Khagrachhari Adhunik Hospital morgue for autopsies. In Pabna, a regional banned party leader was hacked to death by unknown assailants in Bhinnogram area of Santhia upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Al Amin Hossain, 35, son of Fazlal Miah, an inhabitant of the area and a regional leader of Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML- Lal Pataka).Abdur Razzak, officer-in-charge of Ataikula police station, said that the attackers hacked Al Amin early in the morning near the Ichhamati river.Shortly farmers found his body lying in the area and informed police, who recovered the body and sent it to Pabna General Hospital. Al Amin was accused in several cases, including murder, with Santhia and Ataikula police stations, said the OC. Police suspected the outlawed leader was killed by his party rivals over establishing supremacy.In Comilla, two young men were killed and two others injured in a collision between a bus and a private car on the Dhaka-Comilla highway at Paduyar Bazar in Sadar Dakshin upazila on Sunday morning.The deceased were identified as Saiful Islam, 26, son of Abdul Latif from Nalchar village, and Moazzem Hossain, 28, son of Mohammad Ali from Gazipara village of the upazila. Ali Ashraf, Sub-Inspector of Maynamati highway police, said the collision took place between a Chittagong-bound ‘Mamun Express’ bus and a Dhaka-bound private car on the highway around 7am, leaving two passengers of the car dead on the spot and two others injured. The injured were admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital.Police seized the bus.In Faridpur, An Awami League activist was hacked to death in a clash between supporters of the AL and BNP-backed chairman candidates at Bagat union of Madhukhali upazila on Saturday night over the union parishad election. The deceased was identified as Atiar Rahman, 45, an AL activist and brother of AL candidate Matiar Rahman. Ruhul Amin, Officer-in-Charge of Madhukhali police station, said that the supporters of the AL candidate locked into an altercation with the supporters of the BNP candidate when they were returning from an election campaign in front of the AL aspirant’s election camp in Roy Jadapur area of the union around 9:30pm. Then BNP men attacked an AL office in Bagat union around 10.30pm, triggering a fierce clash which left seven persons, including Atiar, injured, who were moved to the upazila health complex where doctors declared Atiar dead. Outraged by the incident, the AL candidate’s supporters laid siege to the Dhaka-Khulna highway at 11pm for one and half an hour and staged a demonstration. Police removed them from the highway to restore discipline.In Rajshahi, former director of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) Ziaul Haque Tuku was killed when a bullet reportedly fired accidentally from his own pistol pierced through his chest here on Sunday.Quoting witnesses, Assistance Commissioner (Boalia Model Police Station) of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) Golam Saqlain said that the bullet inadvertently went out of his licensed pistol around 3:45pm when Ziaul was cleaning it in his office near the Nagar Bhaban. The bullet entered his chest, he said. Ziaul, also Treasurer of Rajshahi district unit Awami League, was taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) where doctors declared him dead around 4pm. Boalia Thana OC Shahdat Hossain said that Tuku was first found with bullet injuries in his office at Gourahanga around 4:30pm on Sunday. He said that Tuku was shot on the right side of his chest. A gun and blood-soaked towel were also recovered from the spot.
