A Rangpur court yesterday placed two people, including a local BNP activist, on a 10-day remand each in connection with the killing of Japanese national Hoshi Kunio at Alutari in Kaunia upazila, reports UNB. Those remanded were identified as Rashedun Nabi Biplab, 45, a member of Rangpur city unit BNP, and Humayun Kabir Hira. Senior Judicial Magistrate Abu Taleb passed the order when officer-in-charge of Kaunia Police Station Rezaul Karim, also the investigation officer of the case, produced them before the court, seeking a 10-day remand for each of them. Earlier, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and police in their separate drives arrested Rashedun Nabi Biplab and Humayun Kabir Hira from different parts of Rangpur city on Saturday. They were later shown arrested in the case. On October 3, Hoshi Kunio, 65, was gunned down by unknown miscreants at Alutari in Kaunia upazila in Rangpur. After the killing, police arrested four people—Zakaria, Humyan Kabir, Munnaf and Murad—from the area suspecting their involvement in the murder. They hail from different areas of the city. Police later filed a case against three unidentified people with Kaunia Police Station on Saturday night in connection with the killing. Earlier on September 28, Italian national Cesare Tavella, 50, was gunned down by miscreants in Dhaka city’s Gulshan area. Meanwhile, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) issued a red alert along Benapole border yesterday for an indefinite period so that the criminals involved in the recent killing of two foreigners in the capital Dhaka and Rangpur district cannot flee the country. The BGB imposed the restriction in the morning on the movement of foreigners in the frontier area of Benapole, asking its members to keep vigil in this regard, said commanding officer of Jessore BGB 26-battalion Lt Col Jahangir Hossain. Officer-in-charge of Benapole immigration check-post Momin Uddin said the red alert was enforced in the border area following the killing of an Italian citizen in the capital’s Gulshan area on September 28 and a Japanese national in Rangpur on October 3.
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