Police informant shot dead, passport broker strangled in Mirpur

Police found the bodies of passport broker Shah Alam, 35, and police informant Kalam, 35, under water hyacinth in a lake at South Paikpara at around 9:30am.

Marks in Alam's throat suggest that he was strangled with a rope and the killers shot Kalam thrice in his head and there was a cut in his left thumb, hospital sources said.

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Alam, a resident of Amlirtek Notun Bazar in Shyamoli, went out of his home at around 10.00am the previous day but he did not return home at night, said his wife Parvin Begum.

When his nephew Mehedi Hasan talked with him over mobile phone at around 7:00pm on Tuesday, Alam said he would return in five minutes.

The bodies were sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for autopsy.

Officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station Saidur Rahman Babul said that they were yet to get any lead into the killings.

Parvin suspected that Kalam had hired the assailants to kill her husband to settle a longstanding score with Alam.

The assailants also killed Kalam just to keep their act a secret, she added.

She quoted the local people as saying that Alam and Kalam were seen moving together in Agargaon area on Tuesday.

Alam was also beaten up by Kalam's men on April 2, Parvin said.

At Jhigatola, hide trader Masum, 30, was shot allegedly by his three cousins.

Masum and his friend Yasin was travelling in a rickshaw when his cousins Pappu, Tokai Mizan and Sohel and four unknown youths intercepted him near Jhigatola post office.

They shot Masum in his abdomen and in his legs, the victim said at the DMCH.