UP chairman shot dead in Satkania
Wife of slain union parishad chairman Nurul Absar (inset) wails while their two kids, grief-stricken, sit beside her.Photo: STAR
Unidentified assailants shot dead Nalua Union Parishad (UP) chairman in Satkania upazila of the district early yesterday. The deceased, Nurul Absar, 35, was also a teacher of Jafar Ahmad Chowdhury Degree College in Satkania and a Jubo League activist. A gang of 10 to 12 intercepted Absar's cousin and brother-in-law while they were entering their houses, adjacent to Absar's house, from outside around 2:00am and beat them up, Khaled Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Satkania Police Station told this correspondent quoting victim's family members. As Absar, who also returned home along with them, came to the balcony of his two-storey house, hearing screams of his cousin and brother-in-law, the gang opened on him and fled the scene, the OC said. Absar received bullets in the chest and died on the way to Chittagong Medical College and Hospital. The motive behind the killing could not be known as of filing of this report at 5:00pm yesterday. Protesting the murder, locals and students put up barricades on Chittagong-Cox's Bazaar Road in front of the degree college at around 11:30am, halting vehicular movement on the busy road for an hour. Meanwhile, angry supporters of Nurul Absar chased Satkania upazila Chairman Abdul Monaf and beat him up when he went to Nalua village to attend the Janaja of Absar. They swooped on Monaf, suspecting his involvement in killing, local sources said. Satkania OC said a conflict with the upazila chairman that surfaced during the UP election might have led to his assassination. Injured Monaf was rushed to Chittagong Medical College and Hospital at around 6.00pm. He was given first aid, said Nuruzzaman, in-charge of CMCH police outpost.
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