Auto-rickshaw driver killed

Our Correspondent, Rangpur
Criminals killed the driver of a battery-run auto-rickshaw and snatched the vehicle from him in Kaunia upazila on Sunday night. The victim, Shafiqul Islam, 28, was son of Monsur Ali of Ramchandrapur village. Police and family sources said the gang hired the rickshaw, going to the village, a border area of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, in the evening. They strangled him and took away the vehicle. Locals found his body in a jungle and informed the police at night. The law enforcers recovered the body and sent it to the hospital morgue for autopsy, said, Jamir Uddin, officer in-charge of Lalmonirhat Sadar Police Station.