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Retired teacher murdered

4 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Staff Correspondent, Ctg

A retired schoolteacher was murdered in Banshkhali upazila yesterday. Makhan Lal Bhattacharya, 65, retired from Banshakhali Adarsha High School around a year ago. Sources said, at least seven people attacked him when he was going to his home at Keyang Mohajanpara of Uttar Jaladi from the municipal area Wednesday night. The gang beat up and stabbed him. He was rushed to nearby health complex but succumbed to injury while being shifted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital yesterday. Later, police arrested six people in connection with the murder.