News in brief
Krishak leader shot dead
PABNA: A leader of Jatiya Krishak Samity was killed by unidentified criminals in front of his home at Chackia Diarpara village of Atghoria upazila of the district last night, reports BSS.
The deceased was Abdur Rashid, 35, vice-president of Jatiya Krishak Samity, the farmers wing of Workers Party of Bangladesh and son of late Bahadur Pramanik of the same area.
Police and locals said a gang of armed men shot him when he was returning home after a party meeting.
Later, the criminals chopped him indiscriminately, said GM Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Atghoria police station.
Nazma Khatun, wife of the victim, filed a case in this connection against 16 persons, the OC added.
Two burnt bodies recovered
Gaibandha: Police recovered burnt bodies of two young men from Katakhali Bridge area in Gobindaganj upazila yesterday morning, reports UNB.
Identities of the deceased, aged around 20-22, could not be known immediately.
Officer-in-charge of Gobindaganj police station Mojammel Haque said local people spotted the bodies lying in a wheat field in the morning and informed police.
Later, police recovered the bodies and sent those to Gaibandha Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Police suspected that criminals set the victims afire after pouring kerosene in the field, the OC added.
Driver jailed for eve-teasing
Benapole: A mobile court on Wednesday sentenced an auto-rickshaw driver to one years jail for eve-teasing a university female student in Palbari area of Jessore district, reports UNB.
The convict was identified as Abdul Awal,35, a resident of the district town.Police said Awal passed some indecent comments to a female student of Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan of India while she was waiting to hire an auto-rickshaw in Palbari area at about 8:30 pm.
Hearing her screams, local people caught Awal and handed him over to police.
Later, the law enforcers produced him before the mobile court, led by additional district magistrate Sohel Hasan, which sentenced him to one years imprisonment.
Officer-in-charge of Jessore Kotwali police station Sheikh Gani Miah confirmed the incident.
Mass hysteria attacks students
FARIDPUR: Thirty one female students fell sick by the mass hysteria disease this morning at local Khalilpur High School under Sadar upazilla and were shifted to Faridpur Medical College Hospital for treatment, reports BSS.
According to hospital sources, the sick students are being given treatment and condition of none is so much serious.The Headmaster of the school Md. Siddikur Rahman told journalists that when the students entered the rooms at 10 am after the assembly was over, suddenly one by one started falling sick with respiratory problem and were shifted to FMCH.
