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Rajbari, Jessore

BNB Jubo League men shot dead

Star Report
Unknown assailants gunned down an activist of opposition BNP's Rajbari district unit early yesterday allegedly over previous enmity.
Deceased SM Shamsul Alam Bablu was also the former convener of Rajbari district unit Jubo Dal, the youth wing of BNP, reports our Kushtia correspondent.
Protesting the killing, a half-day hartal was called in Rajbari district for today.
Meanwhile in Jessore, two youths including an activist of Jubo League, youth body of Awami League, were killed in separate incidents last night.
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In Rajbari, police arrested Arif Biswas, an activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), a pro-BNP student body, for his alleged involvement in the killing.
Sahab Uddin Khalifa, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kushtia Sadar Police Station, said some criminals opened fire on Bablu in Binodpur area of the town around 1:30am when he was return-ing home from Rajbari Bazar.
The incident took place just 200 yards away from the Binodpur Police Camp.
The OC said a team from the camp rushed to the spot hearing the shots and took Bablu to Rajbari Sadar Hospital where the doctors on duty declared him dead around 2:15am.
The OC suspected that Bablu was the victim of a conflict between Ali Newaz Mohammad Khayyam, former lawmaker of Rajbari-1 and also the president of Rajbari district unit Jubo Dal, and Harunur Rashid, general secretary of the same unit.
Bablu belonged to Khayyam group.
The victim had a rivalry with a group of JCD and Jubo Dal men of the district led by Mir Enam Ali Bachchu, a Jubo Dal leader and an incumbent councillor of Rajbari municipality, over establishment of supremacy in the area, the OC said.
Rajbari Superintendent of Police Rezaul Haque said, “We are looking into whether those leaders had any link with the killing.”
The killing was planned and the killers were waiting there for the victim, he added.
The hartal was declared
at a press conference at the home of Khayyam in the town. Khayyam claimed that "opponents" carried out the murder and demanded immediate arrest of the killers.
On March 2, unidentified criminals opened fire on Bablu's younger brother Shahidul Islam Shimul in the town. Shimul, however, narrowly escaped.
The family of Bablu claims that councillor Enam was behind the attempt to kill Shimul.
Following the incident, Bablu filed an attempted murder case accusing Enam.
UNB adds: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday strongly condemned and protested the killing of Bablu.
In a statement, Fakhrul blamed the present “fascist Awami League government-backed terrorists” for the killing and said: "The killing of Shamsul Alam Bablu has manifested the terrorist character of the Awami League."
TWO KILLED IN JESSORE Jubo League activist Jamal Hossain, 30, was gunned down around 8:30pm.
The other victim, vender Billal Hossain, 22, was stabbed to death around 6:30pm, reports our Jessore correspondent.
Witnesses said several unidentified criminals riding on a microbus shot Jamal at point black while he was standing in front of Weiss Restaurant in Puratan Kasba area. They also stabbed his chest and left the spot exploding2-3 bombs.
Locals rushed Jamal to Jessore Medical College Hospital (JMCH) where doctors declared him dead.
In another incident, Billal was stabbed indiscriminately by criminals while he was passing Ghope-Dhanpatti area of Jessore town.
Billal was rushed to JMCH where doctors declared him dead, locals said.
Assistant Sub-Inspector Delwar Hossain of Jessore Kotwali Police Station could not say anything about the motive of the killings. “Police will investigate into the killings," he said.
Law and order deteriorated in the area as at least 40 people were killed in the last three months in different incidents, locals said.
Talking to The Daily Star, local Awami League MP Khaledur Rahman Tito said black money and illegal drug business were the main reasons behind the killing incidents in his constituency, Jessore-3.
"A section of ruling party men and some dishonest men in the law enforcement agencies are patronising the black money holders and local drug peddlers,” he alleged.