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Deadline to police

6 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Rangpur

People of Mithipur yesterday gave the officer-in-charge of Pirganj Police Station a two-day ultimatum to arrest the killers of two children. Earlier, Pirganj police recovered the bodies of the two children from a pond at Madarganj of Mithipur union under Pirganj upazila on Thursday. Kabir, 11, son of Shafijan Miah and Subash, 10, son of Gonesh of the adjoining village Hasanpur were allegedly killed when they went to steal mango from the tree of a local influential person.