Five killed in city

Five people were killed at Kalabagan, Kadamtali, Khilgaon, Tejgaon and New Market in the capital between Monday and Wednesday.

The police found Golam Rahman, 58, dead in his house in Lake Circus at Kalabagan on Tuesday night.

Golam, a former additional chief engineer of the Roads and Highways Department, lived in the house with his wife, former lawmaker Sahana Rani, and two daughters.

The police and the family said that he had been stabbed to death in his house sometime between Monday night and Tuesday evening. His legs and hands were tied up with ropes.

The victim's brother-in-law Shahin Iqbal Sabu said that Sahana Rani and her daughters had gone to their village home in Jhenaidah on Monday morning, leaving Golam with their domestic help Nurul Islam at home.

'I went to their house about 9:00pm Tuesday and found the door open. I went inside and found him lying dead on the floor with several stab wounds in the body. I then called the police,' he said.

Shahin Iqbal said that he went there after his sister asked him over telephone to inquire about Golam as she had failed to contact him since Monday afternoon.

He said that the domestic help disappeared after Golam had been found dead.

The Kalabagan police officer-in-charge, Mohammad Enamul Haque, said that they were trying to arrest Nurul Islam, sued in this connection by Golam's wife. 'Nurul Islam is the only suspect,' he said.

The body was sent to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination.

At Kadamtali, assailants stabbed Russell alias Ujjwal, 20, of Purba Dholairpar to death on Wednesday morning.

The family and the police said that a local gang called Ujjwal out of his house and stabbed him indiscriminately in the chest, face and abdomen about 8:30am.

He died after he had been sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Ujjwal worked in a fan factory in Old Town of Dhaka and was from Chandpur.

The body was sent for a post-mortem examination.

No case was filed.

At New Market, assailants hacked Khairul Islam Babu, 36, was an employee of a real estate company, to death in a house on Wednesday morning.

New Market police subinspector Nur Alam said that they had found Khairul dead on the 13th floor of a building about 2:00pm.

A case was filed.

The body was sent for a post-mortem examination.

At Khilgaon, two cousins, Babu and Piplu, allegedly strangled a young man, Ahmed Ali, 14, at Uttarpara of Madartek about 9:30pm over a land dispute, the police said.

Ahmed was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he was pronounced dead about 10:30pm.

At Tejgaon, the Far East Insurance Company's office assistant Nasir Howlader, 30, died in Samorita Hospital in Dhaka after he had fallen down from the roof of a building at Karwan Bazar.

The victim's wife Nazma Khatun Ruma alleged that he had been pushed down from the roof.

News Source: New Age