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2 NGO workers murdered

Star Report
Unknown assailants hacked two NGO employees to death in Boalmari upazila of Faridpur Thursday midnight.
Hie dead are Tapan Kumar Roy, 30, of Fakirpara village ofNababganj upazila, and Liplal Marandi, 35, of Malialpur village of Birganj upazila of Dinajpur. Hie two, also preachers, worked for an international NGO, the Christian Life Bangladesh, as field workers in Dhupapara village ofBoalmari.
Police and locals said the victims were sleeping in their house when tlie assailants stormed into the house breaking the door at 2:00am and stabbed them indiscriminately.
To restrain the locals from rescuing the two, the killers had chained the doors of houses in tlie neigli-bourhoodjocalssaid.
However, hearing the victims' cries, people came and rushed them to Boalmari Health Complex, where the doctors declared them dead.The ' police sent their bodies to Faridpur
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Sadar Hospital for autopsy.
The police arrested one Munir Hossain in connection with the killings.
The locals said Tapan and Liplal, besides their usual activities on arsenic, mother and child health, prevention of early marriage, AIDS and other public awareness programmes, also used to screen videos on the life of Jesus Christ.
The lone employees of the NGO in the area, the two had been working for the last eight months in Alphadanga and Boalmari upazilas, where some people reportedly opposed their activities.
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Boalmari Police Station Abdur Rouf said previous enmity might have been behind the killings.
Bipul Kumar Bagchi, landlord of the victims', filed an FIR (first information report) with the Boalmari PS, saying some fundamentalists, angered by the preaching activities of the victims, might have killed them.
Assistant Superintendent of Police of Faridpur Harun-ar-Rashid also told reporters that the two might have been killed for preaching.
Peter B Bose, supervisor of the Christian Life Bangladesh of Faridpur zone, said the two were engaged in awareness creating programmes and used to screen documentary on the life of Jesus taking permission from the villagers. Some locals barred them from screening the video footages and threatened to kill them if they continued their work, he added.