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Attack on Noor Main accused found dead

OUR CORRESPONDENT, Nilphamari
The prime accused in the case filed in connection with attacking Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor's motorcade last month was found dead in a ditch at Arazi Itakhola village of the sadar upazila yesterday.
Deceased Golam Rabbani, 35, son of Mujibur Rahman of Dubachhuri village in the upazila, was the number-one accused of the attack that killed five people and injured 100 others, including police, said investigation officer Sub-Inspector Asaduzzaman of Sadar Police Station.
On December 14, activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir attacked Noor's motorcade while he was returning to Nilphamari town visiting Laxmichap, Sheeshatoli and Palash Bari villages where Jamaat men two days ago had torched some 80 shops and warehouses of Hindus and AL activists protesting war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah's execution.
Police that night lodged a case in connection with the attack against 15 named and 1,000 unnamed people. So far, police have arrested 45 suspects, including one named accused.
Meanwhile, locals of Arazi Itakhola village said some workers of the Uttara Export Processing Zone in the upazila had spotted Rabbani's body in a ditch in front of a bamboo cluster on their way to work.
They immediately conveyed the matter to Palash Bari upazila chairman Tapan Kumar Roy, who called the police around 7:00am.
Law enforcers recovered the body around 8:30am, said SI Asaduzzaman, adding that the blood-stained body bore deep wounds on the right jaw and the neck.
He said a case had been lodged in this connection.
According to locals, Rabbani had been former organising secretary of BNP Tupamari union unit, but two months ago he joined Jamaat and got involved in the recent violence by the party.
He used to maintain a strong group of more than 100 members and lead a lavish life despite coming from a poor family, say villagers.
Contacted, Rabbani's wife Shahana Begum, 25, said her husband had fled the locality in fear of police and taken shelter in a relative's house at Borgasheel village of Tetulia upazila, Panchagarh.
Quoting those relatives she alleged that about 18 to 20 men in blackshirts and identifying themselves as members of elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) had cordoned off Rabbani's shelter house Wednesday around 5:30am. They picked him up at gunpoint.
She said they were confused whether the men who picked up Rabbani were actually lawmen, as the word "RAB" was not inscribed on the back of their shirts and some of them were wearing sandals and regular shoes.
The relatives afterwards had looked for Rabbani at Tetulia, Panchagarh and Nilphamari police stations, but could not find a trace of him, said Shahana, adding, "This morning we came to know that his body was lying beside the Nilphamari-Domar road."
"If my husband was guilty we would have accepted punishment, but now we want justice," she said.
Md Shahjahan Pasha, officer-in-charge of the Sadar Police Station, said: "I can say that we have just recovered the body and our investigation into the death is on."