A 35-year-old local BNP leader, who tried to set a bus on fire, died after falling off a building while fleeing in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area during the nationwide daylong hartal enforced by BNP and Jamaat on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Abdur Rashid, local government affairs secretary of Adabor ward 30 unit of BNP.
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Quoting witnesses, Mahfuzul Haque, officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station, said Rashid tried to set a bus on fire in Mohammadpur Town Hall area during the hartal.
At one stage, local people chased him, forcing him to run away.
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Being chased, he went to the rooftop of a building and fell from there while trying to jump to another building.
Police sent the body to the local hospital morgue.
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Aminul Haque, member secretary of Dhaka North unit of BNP, said that a group of “Awami League men beat Rashid up mercilessly and killed him after pushing him from an under-construction building.”