Three people were murdered in South Keraniganj on Wednesday, pushing the number of people killed in Dhaka city and on its outskirts to six in last 48 hours.
The police recovered the bodies of Nadim, 25, and an unidentified man, 22, from Jhaobari Balurmath in Kadamtali area early Wednesday and Masud, 26, of Khejurbagan area, from near Kaliganj bridge at about 11:00am. The police said that the unidentified youth was known as Biscuit Pagla in the locality.
Earlier on Tuesday, a ward commissioner of Dhaka City Corporation, Ahmed Hossain, also president of the Dhaka city south unit of the Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, and rice trader Afil Uddin Miah, a resident of Gopinath Datta Road at Babubazar in the Old Town of Dhaka, were shot dead by gunmen and Rezia Begum, 75, was strangled by robbers during a heist at her house at Goran in the city.
The home affairs minister, Sahara Khatun, however, on Wednesday claimed that law and order was now better than anytime in the past.
She, however, called an emergency meeting of the high officials of the law enforcement agencies today.
The officer-in-charge of South Keraniganj police station, Nilutpal Dey, told New Age that Nadim and Biscuit Pagla were killed in a mob beating.
Nadim and Biscuit Pagla were members of a gang of muggers and the area had witnessed quite a few mugging incidents recently, the police officer said.
In another incident, Masud was hacked to death by his rivals near Kaliganj bridge in South Keraniganj at about 11:00am on the day following a dispute over share of booty, according to police.
The police said Masud had been involved in snatching in the area for long.
The police recovered the bodies and sent them to Mitford Hospital for autopsies.
Local sources said Jhaobari Balurmath had turned into a crime-infested area in recent times where snatching had become a regular phenomenon. At least two more murders were committed in South Keraniganj in last one month. Kamal Hossain, a businessman was killed in mid-January.
Another youth, Al Amin, suspected to have been involved in Kamal Hossain's killing, was beaten to death on January 30.
A suspected Janajuddha activist was killed on Wednesday in a bomb attack while the body of another man was found at Ataikula in Pabna.
The suspected activist of the ultra-left PBCP 'Janajudhha' faction was Abdus Salam, 40, a resident of Goyeeshbari in Ataikula, said the police.
The identity of the other deceased person could not be immediately known.
Witnesses said Salam died in a bomb attack, reportedly by his rivals, in the village neighbouring to his own. The Ataikula police recovered his body. In a separate incident, the police recovered at about 12:30am the hacked body of an identified person from a field at the Padmabil village.
Ataikula police officer-in-charge Md Sirajul Islam said conflict inside the party might have led to Salam death.
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