Staff Reporter :The overall law and order situation has deteriorated to an alarming extent in the country as gruesome killings are taking place one after another intensifying sense of insecurity among people.The incidents of killings in the broad daylight are rampant as terrorists and criminal curtails are showing extensive clout under the nose of law-enforcing agencies.On Monday, unidentified assailants on a motorcycle have gunned down a prison guard of Kashimpur jail in Gazipur in broad daylight and fled away.In another development, two persons including the Editor of Roopbaan, the country’s first ever LGBT magazine, have been hacked to death at a flat in capital’s Kalabagan.Besides, two young men were shot dead by unidentified miscreants at Purba Sarakbhata village in Rangunia upazila in Chittagong early Monday.Rustom Ali, 60, a sergeant instructor of Kashimpur Jail, was shot when he was sitting in front of a shop near the prison around 11:15am, reports our Gazipur correspondent. Hailing from Comilla, Rustom was on leave preparatory to retirement (LPR) since November last year, the correspondent said quoting Superintendent of Kashimpur Jail Subrata Kumar Bala.Rustom was in civil dress when he was murdered, he said. “The assailants, riding a motorcycle, suddenly appeared on the scene, opened fire at Rustom and fled away.” The victim received gunshot wounds to the head and chest. He died on the spot. The body has been sent to the morgue of Gazipur Shaheed Tajuddin Medical College Hospital.One person has been picked up from the crime scene, said Harun-or-Rashid, Gazipur Superintendent of Police.Inspector General of Prisons (IGP) Brig Gen Syed Iftekhar Uddin admitted that a murder “so close” to the proximity of the prison is “of great concern to the police and the general public.”He added that the jail authorities all over the country have been instructed to beef up security.The assailants are still at large and police are yet to achieve any breakthrough to nab the killers.In another incident, two persons including the Editor of Roopbaan, the country’s first ever LGBT magazine, have been hacked to death at a flat in capital’s Kalabagan.The deceased are Xulhaz Mannan, 35, and his friend Tanay Mojumdar.Abdul Baten, Deputy Commissioner of Ramna division police, told The New Nation that Mannan was a cousin of former foreign minister Dr Dipu Moni.The incident took place on the second floor of a six-storey building in Kalabagan around 5pm Monday.DC Baten said armed assailants in guise of courier company officials entered the flat and killed the duo.He said, Xulhaz Mannan was known for his gay rights activism.He was working for USAID. Earlier, he worked as a protocol officer of former US Ambassador Dan Mozena for a long time.Tanay, the other victim and his friend, was also a LGBT activist.Parvez, 18, security guard of the house, told The New Nation that five to six youths identifying themselves as courier company officials came to the house around 5pm mentioning that they have brought some parcel for Xulhaz.He said: “But half an hour later, I heard shouting and shooting sound from the flat and went to look into the incident.””The assailants then attacked me with knives,” said Parvez with heavy wounds on his eye.He is now undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.Another security guard Sumon, who was also present at the time, said the killers were wearing blue T-shirt and everyone had a bag on their shoulder.He said one domestic help and Xulhaz’s mother were also present at the time of the incident.According to eyewitness, the killers while going out of the house chanting “Naraye Takbir, Allahu Akbar.”One of the killers had pistol in his hand.The incidents took place two days into the gruesome murder of Rajshahi University teacher Rezaul Karim Siddiquee in the northern city. According to US-based SITE Intelligence Group, international militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility of Siddiquee’s murder.Meanwhile, two young men were shot to death by unidentified miscreants at Purba Sarakbhata village in Rangunia upazila early Monday over previous enmity, reports our Chittagong correspondent.The deceased were identified as Manju, 28, and Hashem, 31. Officer-in-charge of Rangunia Police Station Humayun Kabir said a group of miscreants swooped on a house in the village where the duo was sleeping around 1:00 am. The attackers hacked Manju and Hashem, and later opened fire at them, leaving them dead on the spot. Informed, police recovered the bodies and sent those to Chittagong Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy on Monday morning.”Crime being committed in the cities, towns and villages and it is in a way shocking to see the rapid deterioration of law and order in the country,” a former Chief of Bangladesh Police told The New Nation, requesting not to be named.He alleged that the law and order situation in the country has been deteriorated alarmingly and rule of law has broken.”The government is providing background for turning the country into a militant state by stopping democratic practices,” he alleged.
