Magura BNP leader held in arson case

Detectives here on Sunday arrested a BNP leader in connection with the arson attack that claimed the lives of five workers at Moghirdhal on the Magura-Jessore highway in Sadar upazila in March this year.

The arrestee is Mizanur Rahman, publicity secretary of the district unit of BNP.

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Assistant superintendent of Police Sudarshan Kumar Ray said acting on a tip-off, a team of DB police raided Ichhakhada Bazar area and arrested Mizanur on Sunday afternoon.

On March 21, nine sand workers suffered burn injuries in a petrol bomb attack on a truck at Moghirdal on the highway in Sadar upazila during the three-month blockade programme enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance.

They were admitted to the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital where five of them succumbed to their injures.

A case was filed against 26 leaders and activists in connection with the attack.

Mizanur, accused in the case, remained absconding since the incident, said Officer-in-Charge Munsi Asaduzzaman.