AL leader murdered in Pirojpur

25 October 2009, 17:00 PM

UNB, Pirojpur

A union level Awami League leader was hacked to death at Batjala village in Sadar upazila Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Alamgir Hossain, 35, member of Shikder Mallik union AL committee. Quoting villagers, police said rivals chopped Alamgir indiscriminately while he was returning home from a nearby shop at about 9:00pm. Alamgir died on the spot and the killers fled the scene firing blank shots. On information, police recovered the body at midnight and sent it to Sadar hospital morgue for autopsy. Locals recovered two cartridges and a pipe-gun butt yesterday from the spot and deposited those to a village watchman of the union parishad. Contacted, officer in-charge (OC) Ibrahim of Sadar police station said there were several allegations of burglary, robbery and other crimes against Alamgir.