Villager murdered
A man was killed and three houses were damaged at Halkakanda village under Durgapur upazila in the district yesterday morning over realising loan money. The deceased was identified as Amir Hossain, 51, a resident of the village. Police and locals said Amir and his neighbour Chand Mia took Tk 10,000 as loan from Kamal of the same village a few months ago. At one stage of hot exchange of words yesterday over the loan money, a group of 20 people led by Kamal attacked the houses of Amir and Chand Mia with sharp and lethal weapons at about 8:00am. They ransacked the houses and killed Amir with sharp weapons. A case was filed with Durgapur police station in this connection but no one was arrested till filing of this report yesterday evening.
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