Murder of Freedom Fighter: Police have no clue about who killed him

Freedom fighters in Lalmonirhat yesterday held a rally protesting the killing of a former college principal, also a freedom fighter, as police said they couldn't find any clue pointing to the motive of the killing or the killers.

The 68-year-old M Wazed Ali was hacked to death by unidentified criminals near his house in Sahebdanga area of Patgram on Friday around 10:30pm, said Omar Farooq, officer-in-charge of Patgram Police Station.

Wazed, the former principal of Patgram Women's College, was the deputy commander of the district Freedom Fighters' Council and a member of the upazila unit Awami League. Wazed was also the younger brother of late Abed Ali, a former AL MP of Lalmonirhat-1.

After the rally, freedom fighters demanded that police identify the killers and arrest them. They also demanded exemplary punishment of the killers.

Police, locals and family members told The Daily Star that the unidentified assailants fled after stabbing Wazed in the head, neck and shoulder, just 10 yards away from his home.

Hearing him scream, family members and neighbours rushed to the spot and took him to the emergency department of Patgram Upazila Health Complex. The doctors there declared him dead, they added.

Chairman of Patgram Upazila Parishad and General Secretary of Upazila unit AL Ruhur Amin Babul, who is the nephew of Wazed, said that his uncle was involved in various progressive and social welfare works and had no dispute with anyone.

Patgram police said an investigation has been launched.