'Outlaws kidnap 3 fishermen in Dumuria

. The fish traders are Ramzan, 40, Kawser Ali, 34 and Kawser Molla, 42.

They are yet to be recovered although a combing operation is continuing in the upazila.

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Police arrested six persons including two Union Parishad members in connection with the abduction. The UP members are Babar Ali of Ward No 7 in Shovna union and Bishnupada Mondol of Ward No 6 in Atlia union. The rest four are Kumaresh Mondol, Dipak Mondol, Dilip Mollick and Ajiar Rahman.

Sources said abductors are armed cadres of Biplobi Communist Party. They abducted the fishermen as they were refused shelter in a shrimp enclosure on Sunday last, police said.