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Outlaws kill Jamaat leader

29 April 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Sirajganj

Extremists of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) murdered a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj district on Tuesday night. Saiful Islam, 55, of Aligram village was president of Baro Pangashi union unit of Jamaat. Police and the victim's family members said the extremists waylaid Saiful and slit his throat with sharp weapon when he was returning home from his chamber at Goyhatta Bazaar at around 9:00pm.