Staff Reporter :
An Awami League leader and his brother were gunned down by unidentified miscreants in a broad-day light in Laxmipur Sadar Upazila on Wednesday.
The deceased were identified as Ismail Hossain, 45, and his brother Ibrahim Hossain Ratan, 42. They are sons of Shafiqullah from Boshikpur village under Sadar Upazila. Both were activists of ruling Awami League. Victims’ cousin Harunur Rashid said, the deceased were sitting at a tea stall near Badyer Bari crossing in Bashikpur Union at about 11:00am. At that time, four to five youths in an auto-rickshaw came to the spot, sprayed bullets from point blank range and left the place. One of the miscreants was wearing mask, he said.
The two brothers were rushed to Laxmipur Sadar Hospital where the on-duty doctors declared them dead.
Local people claimed that Ratan was an identified criminal. His rivals might have launched the attack, they said.
A S M Mahtab Uddin, Superintendent of Police (SP), said “We are investigating the incident.” Police are trying to arrest the killers, the police official said.
