UP member murdered
Police recovered the bloodstained body of a union parishad (UP) member from a beel (a large water body) beside Nolua Tea Garden in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj district yesterday. The victim, Sonai Miah, 40, is a member of Gazipur union parishad. He had a business at a local market. Quoting family members, Sayed Mahbubur Rahman, officer in-charge of Chunarughat police station, said Sonai went missing since he left the market for his residence on Saturday at about 10:00pm. Later, locals found the body floating on the water body at around 1:00pm and informed the police. The law enforcers then recovered the body and sent it to Habiganj Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy. Rivals might have killed the UP member over previous enmity, the OC added.
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