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Gunmen ambush Pangsha top cop to death

Staff Correspondent, Khulna
Officer-in- Charge (OC) of Pangsha Police Station of Rajbari Mizanur Rahman, 32. was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Jagirkara village in Patta union on Saturday night while leading a police team on an operation to nab extremists.
Ilie assailants shot liim in the head at about 11:00pm and fled firing blank shots and showing their thumb to police.
Witnesses said the police team that included Sub-inspector (SI) Asaduzzaman and six constables did not even try to chase andnab the killers andfirednotasingleshoL
The OC was rushed to Pangsha upazila health complex and doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Patta union is infested by cadres of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCR M-L). But none has claimed responsibility for the murder of the OC.
The police official's body was brought to his paternal house at Nazirghat road under Sonadanga Police Station of Khulna city on Sunday night. He was buried on Monday at the family graveyard after Namaz-e-Janaja following the Eid-ul-Azha.
Pangsha police said acting on a tip off over phone, Mizanur Rahman led the police team to Jagirkara village to arrest extremists. "We believe the extremists gave him false information with the motive to murder him," said Asaduzzaman.
There was no exchange of fire between the police and the killers, the OC's family members said quoting some witnesses who accompanied his coffin to Khulna.
An FIR was filed without naming any accused for the murder.
Thirty- one people were picked up for questioning. But none of them appeared to be involved in the murder, said SI Mashiur Rahman of Pangsha Police Station over tele-
phone yesterday.
Mizanur Rahman took over as OC on November 11 last year on being promoted as inspector. He went to Angole, Kosovo and Bosnia as a member of UN peacekeeping force fter joining police service in 1989. He received UN awards for his performances, said his father Hemayet-uddin.
A few hours before his death, Mizanur sent his wife Shahnaj and son Alif to Khulna from Pangsha to celebrate the Eid his parents and he was scheduled to go next morning.
Unconfirmed reports hinted at involvement of outlaws in the murder of the OC for his tough stance against them. He received death threats from unidentified callers over phone recently for arresting some extremists allegedly backed by ruling BNP leaders.
The superintendent of police of Rajbari could not be contacted as he was conducting a drive following the murder.