Three bullet-ridden bodies recovered in Munshiganj
Police recovered three bullet-hit bodies from Sirajdikhan and Sreenagar upazilas under the district yesterday.
Another person allegedly committed suicide in Sirajdikhan upazila while a man left the body of his wife at Munsiganj General Hospital the same day.
Police recovered the body of Ibrahim, 20, son of Khorshed Alam of Sreenagar upazila, from under Rashunia Bridge in Sirajdikhan upazila around 9:00am. He received three bullets on the head.
"Ibrahim went missing after he started for Banani in the capital for his medical check-up on January 16 as he was preparing to go abroad. His mother Nazma Begum filed a general diary with Kadamtoli police station the following day," Ibrahim's maternal uncle Abdus Sattar said.
Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Sirajdikhan police station, said Ibrahim was an accused in the case for murder of Awami League leader Ismail in the capital on December 31 last year.
Around 11:00am, police recovered bullet-hit body of Abdul Kuddus, 42, son of Abdul Khaleq of Madaripur, also from near Roshunia Bridge.
Kuddus, owner of a shop in Keraniganj, remained missing for the last two weeks after he went out of his shop, said Sarwar Hossain, elder brother of the victim.
Informed by locals, police recovered the bullet-hit body of Masud, 32, from beside Sreedharpur road in Sreenagar upazila yesterday noon, said Mizanur Rahman, officer in charge of Sreenagar police station.
"Masud went out of his house on January 11 to realise Tk 20 thousand that one Nazmul owed to him. Afterwards he went missing," said Masud's sister-in-law Nurjahan Begum.
Criminals may have killed them somewhere else on Wednesday night and later dumped the bodies, police said, adding that there might have been a link among the three incidents as the three people received bullets on the head while their hands were tied with new scarves,.
Police recovered the hanging body of Al Amin, 35, from Shialdi village in Sirajdikhan upazila yesterday morning.
Family sources said he committed suicide.
Noor Alam of Sarisabon village in Tongibari upazila accompanied by a man brought his wife Shirin Akhtar, 20, to Munsiganj General Hospital yesterday morning when the on-duty doctors declared her dead. Noor Alam fled the scene, leaving the body at the hospital, police said.
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