Hira gives confessional statement

Humayun Kabir Hira, arrested in connection with the killing of Japanese citizen Kunio Hoshi, made a confessional statement before a Rangpur court last night.

Police produced Hira before a senior judicial magistrate around 8:00pm, court sources said.

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After recording his statement, the court ordered Hira to be sent to jail.

The content of his statement could not be known.

Hira, a friend of Hoshi, was detained at Rangpur Medical College Hospital on October 3. He was shown arrested in the murder case two days later.

He has been on police remand in three phases in two cases.

Motorbike-riding gunmen killed 66-year-old Hoshi near his agriculture project at Alutari village in Rangpur's Kaunia on October 3, just five days after Italian national Tavella's murder in Dhaka.