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A local Awami League leader has been hacked to death at Bandarban’s Naikhyangchharhi Upazila.
Published : 1 July 2016, 07:08 AM
Updated : 1 July 2016, 07:08 AM
Mongshoilung Marma, 56, was the vice-president of the ruling party’s Ward No. 1 unit at the Upazila’s Baishari Union. He and his family lived in the union’s Dhabongkhali Parha.
Baishari police investigation centre In-Charge Sub-Inspector Anisur Rahman said Marma came under attack in the union’s Shoshankhola area on Thursday night while returning home from a local bazar.
“Unidentified assailants had hacked him with sharp weapons from behind, leaving him dead on the spot.”
His body was later sent to the Bandarban Sadar Hospital for autopsy.
Naikhyangchharhi police OC Abul Khayer said they would soon lodge a case over the murder.
Police say they are still in the dark about the murder motive but Marma’s relatives feel a land dispute may have been the reason.
Local Awami League leaders have demand the immediate arrest of Marma’s killers.
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