A union parishad (UP) chairman was hacked to death by miscreants in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur on Sunday night.
Mahbubar Rahman was the chairman of Pairabanda UP of the upazila and general secretary of the upazila unit Jamaat-e-Islami.
He was also former president of the Jamaat’s student wing Chhatra Shibir’s district unit and had a pharmacy business at local Pairabanda Bazar.
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Police and locals said the miscreants swooped on him with sharp weapons on the way home from the local market around 9:30 pm, leaving him critically injured.
Hearing screams, locals rushed to the spot and took him first to Upazila Health Complex and subsequently shifted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital where physicians declared him dead around 11:00 pm.
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Local people detained Harun, 50, with a machete from the spot and later handed over to the police. Tension mounted in the union over the killing.
Mostafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Mithapukur police station, said Harun was brought to police station for interrogation and additional police personnel were deployed in the area to fond off untoward incident.
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