Floating body of Jubo Dal leader recovered from Buriganga

20 May 2010, 18:00 PM

A Correspondent, Munshiganj

The floating body of a local Jubo Dal leader was recovered from the river Buriganga yesterday, a day after he fell down from a launch at Sadarghat. Police said they found the body of an unidentified man floating in the water near Jinjira and later his relatives identified him. Injury marks were found in his head but they could not ascertain the cause of the wounds, they added. Munshiganj district BNP President Abdul Hai claimed that deceased Akbar Hossain was the organising secretary of Pourasova Jubo Dal unit and he died after he had jumped down from a launch when the ruling party cadres made an attack on BNP men on their way to join the grand rally at Paltan on Wednesday. However, district Awami League Publicity Secretary Kamal Uddin denied the allegation and said Akhbar fell down during a scuffle over food distribution among the BNP men and he died after being hit with a boat. He also claimed that Akhbar did not go to Sadarghat for joining the rally. He went there for a different purpose. BNP leader Abdul Hai said several hundred ruling party cadres swooped on the BNP men when their launch anchored at Sadarghat terminal in the afternoon. “Several BNP men had jumped into the river to save their lives. Many of them swam ashore, but Akhbar's body was found floating.”