Leaflets distribution for preventing corona virus outbreak in Khulna
KHULNA: Leaflets distribution programme has been started yesterday in the city for preventing corona virus outbreak and to make the people aware about the disease. Mayor of Khulna City Corporation Talukder Abdul Khaleque inaugurated the distribution programme at a function in the city 29 ward as the chief guest. Mayor Khaleque underscored the need for preventing corona virus outbreak anyhow to save the people from the catastrophe. “As 20 persons of the country have been infected with COVID-19, there is no alternative to conduct campaign to make the people aware about the disease”, he said. He also discouraged the people to avoid all kinds of public gathering, meetings and rallies and urged them to maintain one-meter distance from one another. Later, he distributed leaflets inscribed with how to spread corona virus and its symptoms and preventive measures. General Secretary of city unit Awami League MDA Babul Rana and convener of Khulna city unit Jubo League Shafiqur Rahman Palash attended the function as special guests. Local AL leaders and media men were present on the occasion, reports BSS.
Tk 21 lakh snatched in Kachua
Bagerhat Correspondent
A sum of Tk 21 lakh 7 hundred was hijacked by some alleged miscreants from a young man named Bhaskar Roy in the village Bisharikhola within Gazalia Union under Kachua Upazila in Bagerhat district after beating him mercilessly on Wednesday morning. Bhaskar Roy is the son of one Chittaronjon Roy of the village. Locals said that in the morning the man left home for Chitalmari bazar under Chitalmari Upazila in the same district in order to pay some a sum of Tk.21, 700 and when he reached the place of occurrence, half a kilometer sway from his house some 5/6 miscreants who ambushed in waiting earlier suddenly fell on him from his behind, beat him mercilessly out previous enmity, snatched away the cash Taka and fled away. As a result, the man was fatally injured. Some locals recovered him from there and admitted him to Kachua Upazila Health Complex for treatment. In this connection a case was lodged with Kachua PS.
