Last 2 of 4 'missing' Gaibandha leaders return

The last two of four political leaders of Awami League and BNP who went “missing” from Gaibandha on January 9 and 10, returned today.

Maidul Islam Prince, 30, publication secretary of Awami League, Naldanga union; and Shafiul Islam Shapla, 32, assistant secretary of Jubo Dal, Naldanga union, returned to their village home in Sadullapur upazila this morning, our Gaibandha correspondent reports quoting Prince.

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Unidentified men in plainclothes left the duo on a road in Kholahati area in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur around 2:30am, Prince said.

Farhad Imrul Kayes, officer-in-charge (OC) of Sadullapur Police Station, said they have not heard about it yet.

The four local political leaders: Monwarul Hassan Jim, 40, senior vice-president of Sadullapur upazila Jubo League and former chairman of Damodarpur union, Sadequl Islam Sadeq, 35, former president of Bangladesh Chhatra League, Damodarpur union; Prince and Shapla went missing from Jan 9-10.

On Jan 19, Jim and Sadeq returned.

Some eight to ten plainclothes people waylaid Sadeq and Jim when the duo was moving towards Naldanga at Lalbazar on a motorbike on Jan 10.

Before they could sense anything, the plainclothes men picked them up and boarded a microbus parked there, Sadeq told reporters.