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Phultala BNP leader shot dead

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Published: 02:44, 26 May 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Phultala BNP leader shot dead

Staff Correspondent, Khulna: Unidentified attackers shot and killed a BNP leader and his bodyguard in Phultala of Khulna on Thursday night.

The dead are Alauddin Mihtu, general secretary of Phultala upazila unit of BNP, and Nowsher Gazi.

According to sources, a gang of five miscreants in two motorcycles swooped on Mithu at his business establishment, Mithu Enterprise, near Phultala Upazila Health Complex around 10.30pm.

They opened fire on the BNP leader, leaving him dead on the spot. Nowsher, who was present there, was also shot.

Nowsher died in the hospital.

The reason behind the killing could not be known.

Mithu's father Abul Kashem Sarder, a former Phultala Union Parishad chairman, was killed on August 29, 1998. His elder brother Sarder Abu Sayed Badal was also shot dead.



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