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Jubo League leader shot dead in city

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Nurul Islam, 40, vice president of ward no. 5 of the Jubo League, a front organisation of the Awami League, was the owner of a stationery shop in the area.
Police said, quoting locals, that Islam was murdered for his 'involvement' with the joint forces during the anti-crime drive. They also said it was a revenge killing.
The incident took place when Islam was taking tea at a tea-stall near his house at Road No. 6, block-E, at about 6:30am . When a gang of about 10 in 'police uniform'
appeared there, Islam could sense their motive and made an attempt to escape.
Witnesses said that Najir alias Naija and Sumon alias Bush caught Islam and shot him in the head and left chest point blank. During the indiscriminate firing, Abdur Rashid, 45, a rickshawpuller was also hit by a bullet in his left leg. Leaving the victims in a pool of blood, the gang fled the scene.
Minutes before the attack, BNP cadre Faruq alias Falan and Naija went to Islam at the tea-stall and asked him to go with them to meet a local influential leader.
The victim was rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital
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Wife of the victim Marjina Begum, who witnessed the attack, said that she attempted to save him from the attackers but the assailants pushed her down and left the place.
She also alleged that the miscreants were threatening Islam of dire consequences for his role during the Operation Clean Heart.
She said her husband has been killed because he helped the law enforcers arrest criminals over the last three months.
Locals, who gathered at the hospital to see the body of the Jubo League leader, said that Islam went into hiding as soon as the four-party coalition government came to power. But he came back immediately after the anticrime drive began .
Sources said Chairman Ismail Gazi, an influential man of the locality, also thought that Islam had a role in his arrest during the crack-down on criminals.
According to the police, Islam himself led a group of musclemen. Two groups of the area
fought for the control of a bridge and it was ultimately set afire. A tense situation was prevailing in the area and Islam might have been killed as a sequel to the incident, another source said.
Meanwhile, Mostafa Kamal Master, an Awami League leader and former commissioner of ward No. 5, who went to the DMCH to see the body of the victim, was picked up by Pallabi police. Asked whether Kamal had anything to do with the killing, police replied in the negative. They said he was a listed criminal and accused in a case filed with the Pallabi Police Station. Police were looking for him for a long time, they added.
Mosharaf Hossain, driver of a yellow taxi, Dhaka Metro Pa-11-1493, who took Islam to the DMCH, claimed that the victim could be saved if the physicians gave him treatment immediately.
Hossain said when Islam was taken to the DMCH, on-duty doctors asked for police clearance, and he had to take him to the Pallabi Police Station and later again to the hospital with clearance from police.
Islam, son of Sundar Ali, was
from Botarkandi, Bancharampur, in Comilla. district. He left behind two sons and two daughters (of his first wife) and his second wife Saju also has three daughters.
Marjina received the body from the morgue after postmortem. Sources said that his body was supposed to be taken to the Awami League office, but police did not allow it.
The duty officer of Pallabi Police Station said that none from the victim's family went to the police station to file any case till last night. Police picked up at least ten people for interrogation in connection with the killing.
Police sources believe that it was the first revenge killing since the withdrawal of the joint forces on January 9.