Staff Reporter :Some unidentified miscreants hacked a Christian trader to death inside his shop at Bonpara village in Baraigram upazila of Natore district on Sunday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Sunil Gomez, 60, grocery shopper, said Munshi Shahab Uddin, Assistant Superintendent of Police of the district.The murder came just hours after the wife of a top anti-terror police officer was stabbed and shot dead in the southeastern city of Chittagong.Meanwhile, US-based SITE Intelligence Group quoted ‘Amaq Agency’ to report that Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the murder.Locals of the community formed a human-chain protesting the gruesome murder in the evening. They demanded arrest of the killers for justice. Shahab Uddin said, “Some unknown assailants entered his shop just near a church at Bonpara and hacked him to death around 12:15pm and fled the scene promptly. Family members rushed to the shop when they heard him screaming and found him in a pool of blood. He was taken to a local hospital where the on-duty doctors declared him dead.”It was preplanned murder, the police official said. He said that the body had several wounds of sharp weapons.Inspector Inam Ahmed, investigating the crime scene, said that the attack bore hallmark of previous militant killings carried out on free thinkers and people belonging to differing faiths.But he refused to say anything as to whether it was a murder of that kind.Police are trying to arrest the killers, the police official said.
