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Deaths from beating on rise

31 killed in country last month

By Shaikh Nazrul Islam
At least 31 people were beaten to death in separate incidents in the capital and different parts of the country last month, according to police and newspaper reports.
The death toll from beating was 26 in May.
Of those killed in June, five including a 13-year-old domestic help were in the city, eleven in Faridpur. two in Jhenidah and one each in Bogra. Nil-harnari. Gazlpur. Feni. Tha -urgaon. Mymenaingh. Laxny-pur. Jessore. Dinazpur. Cox’s Bazar. .Tangall, Thakurgaon and Chittagong.
The victims included eight housewives, beaten to death by their husbands or family members. Three of them were report -edly pregnant. One housewife was beaten to death for alleged extra marital relationship.
Ten persons were killed on suspicion of being dacoits. muggers and thieves.
The 13-year-old domestic help — Rashid — was beaten to
death by two brothers at their Zakir Hossain Road residence at Mohammadpur on June 22 when Tk. 600 was found missing from the house.
Police arrested them when the family attempted to dump the body of the boy. They were later sent to Dhaka Central Jail.
BSS news agency had reported that on June 21. eight alleged dacoits were beaten to death at Kamardangi village in Sadar upazila of Faridpur district.
But the SP of Faridpur when contacted told this correspondent that investigations found the report baseless. He however did not elaborate.
According to the BSS report, 15 people- arrived at Ka • maraangt in the evening in a country boat. Challenged by the villagers, they failed to answer questions and started fleeing. The villagers chased and caught eight of them, beat them to death and threw the bodies into a nearby river. The rest lied away.
In another Incident at Faridpur town, a sex worker was beaten to death by a client on June 17 when she started screaming as he tried to escape
with her ornaments.
Kohhioor Begum, a pregnant housewife, was beaten to death at Hatilpur village in Bogra Sadar on June 14. Abul Hossain, father of the victim filed a case accusing the victim’s husband, mother-in-law. brother-in-law and six others.
Another pregnant housewife. Shahlda Begum. 24, was beaten to death by her husband at Katipara village in Nilphamari Sadar on June 24 as she tried to resist his second marriage.
A trifling matter cost the life of another pregnant housewife at Bashudia village in La-xmlpur Sadar upazila. Amena Begum. 25. was beaten to death by a male neighbour on June 26 during an altercation over collecting coconuts from a tree.
A young housewife. Lata Begum, was beaten to death by her husband at Tangall on June 11 on suspicion that she had extra marital affair.
Sakina Begum. 18. was beaten to death by her husband Yunus Mian In less than three weeks of their marriage The incident took place at Sari-shakata village under Bhu-langata union in Cox's Bazar district on June 13. Local people
who caught Yunus and handed him over top police alleged that he used to beat her almost every day since the marriage.
Housewife Lutfa Begum was beaten to death by her husband AzIzu 1 Huq for dowry at Bhelazan In Thakurgaon district on June I Hr had demanded Tk 50 thousand.
Nur Nahar, 35. a garments employee, was beaten to death by her jobless husband In Chittagong on June 24 as she refused to meet his demand for money.
Shamsul Huq. father of a domestic help — Shapla — was beaten to death at East Sherpur village under Parbatipur thana In Dinajpur on June 1 1 after a pair of gold bangles of the house lady was found missing
Shapla used to work at the house of one Abu Yahiya. Her father was called and beaten to death when the bouse lady failed to recover her ornaments even after confining Shapla for three days.
Abdul Mannan Bapari. was beaten to death by his son-In-Law at Dholalpar In Dhaka city June 17. The incident took place when Mannan went to his daughter s house and charged Ids son-In-law for not providing sufficient food to Ills wife.