JL leader murder: Ex-AL leader Iqbal’s son held in city

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bdnews24.com :
Police have arrested four people, including the son of prime suspect and ex-Awami League leader Haji Iqbal, over the murder case of Chittagong Jubo League leader Mohiuddin.
They were arrested from a house in Dhaka’s Khilkhet early on Wednesday morning, said Chittagong Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner (Port Zone) Harunur Rashid. The four were detained from the building based on a tip, he told bdnews24.com.
Haji Iqbal’s son Ali Akbar was among the detainees. Though Iqbal was also at the building, he fled before police could catch him. Police have not released the names of the other detainees.
On Mar 26, Mohiuddin was hacked to death in the headmaster’s office of Meher Afroze High School where he convened a meeting to form a committee to organise a reunion of former students, said witnesses. After the incident, police recovered the body of Mohiuddin from the scene and was later taken to his home in Halishahar area in the port city. He was buried in his family graveyard following funeral prayers, said the victim’s brother Abu Yusuf. A group of 15 to 20 people, led by Iqbal, hacked him to death with sharp weapons and fled the scene riding on a motorbike and a microbus, the victim’s family claimed citing the witnesses. The key suspect, Iqbal, was the organising secretary of Bandar Thana Awami League.
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