Rangpur Court delivering verdict on Kunio Hoshi's murder

The court of Rangpur's Special Judge Naresh Chandra Sarkar has started reading out the verdict on the murder case of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi.

Rangpur Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 28 Feb 2017, 04:19 AM
Updated : 28 Feb 2017, 05:14 AM

Out of the six Jaamat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) radicals, five have been brought to his court from jail to hear the verdict.

They stand accused of perpetrating the murder. The other is absconding.

Security has been tightened in Rangpur ahead of the verdict.

Huge police presence could be noticed at all the entry points to the Special Court.

Only lawyers and media persons were allowed entry in to the court premises.

On the morning of Oct 3, 2015, masked assailants riding motorcycles shot Kunio Hoshi several times when he was heading to his grass farm in the northern district of Rangpur. 

The 66-year old Japanese national died on the spot. An Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella had been killed a week earlier in identical fashion.

The attacks on foreigners hit the international news headlines at that time.

The Islamic State had reportedly claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the government rebuffed it saying the radical group had no presence in Bangladesh.