Three men were beaten to death early Wednesday morning in the Tularampur area on the Narail-Dhaka-Benapole highway, as locals suspected them of being cattle thieves. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. 2 cops go missing after jumping into Padma River    According to local sources, residents of Tularampur have been grappling with frequent incidents of cattle theft. The latest attempt occurred just before dawn today, when three men allegedly attempted to steal cattle from the property of Bakhtiar Hossain Hannan. Awakened by the barking of his dogs, Hannan quickly alerted nearby villagers who rushed to the scene. The gathered crowd chased down the suspects and the three men were fatally beaten.  Preliminary investigations revealed that two of the deceased suspects were from the Shibganj area in Bogura district. Villagers identified the suspects’ origins by examining conversations on the mobile phones recovered from their bodies. Authorities are still working to confirm the identity of the third victim.  Officer-in-Charge Sajedul Islam of Narail Sadar Police Station confirmed the incident.

Thousands of villagers on Tuesday clashed with law enforcers as the public demanded the arrests of the accused involved in the brutal deaths of two construction workers in a mob beating following a fire at a temple in Madhukhali upazila of Faridpur last Thursday (April 18, 2024) night. Some members of the law enforcing agencies and villagers were injured in the clash that lasted for around three hours on Dhaka-Khulna highway but the exact number of the injured could not be ascertained. One of the injured was sent to Bangabandhu Sheik Mujib Medical College Hospital in the district due to critical condition, confirmed Madhukhali police station’s Officer-in-Charge Miraj Hossain. Witnesses said thousands of villagers formed a human demanding arrest of the accused on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Madhukhali Sadar in the morning and later brought out a protest procession which started heading towards Dumain Panchapalli where the lynching occurred last Thursday. Read more: HC directs judicial inquiry to identify those responsible for topsoil depletion in Satkania Being barred from the law enforcers, the villagers became angry over the matter and started hurling brickbats targeting the enforcers, resulting in a chase and counter-chase for the three hours. Due to the clash, hundreds of vehicles got stuck on both sides of the road, causing immense suffering amid the scorching heat. Deputy Commissioner Md Qamrul Ahsan Talukder said he tried to assuage the agitated villagers but they didn’t pay heed to it. “On behalf of the administration, we will consider the demand for which you are agitating with utmost importance. But the protesters did not respond to the administration's call and continued their programme,” he said. Additional superintendent of police Md Imdad Hossain said following the Panchapalli incident, protesters tried to block the road from Madhukhali Sadar to Kamarkhali, while police tried to disperse them by firing tear gas and blank bullets at some places. “We completely cleared the road by 3 pm. Vehicular movement is now normal,” the police officer said. Read more: Money Embezzlement Case: HC issues rule on bail of Major Mannan and 6 others

An 18-year-old girl was stabbed to death by a youth in Shariatpur sadar upazila on Saturday, a day before her wedding and the accused was injured in a mob beating. The deceased was identified as Kakoli, 18, a student of class 11 in Shariatpur Sadar Alia Madrasa, and daughter of Nuruzzaman Madbor of Char Palong village in the upazila. She succumbed to her injuries around 3 am Sunday at a private hospital in the capital’s Dhanmondi area, said the family. Also read: Farmer, pregnant wife stabbed ‘by Jubo League leader’ in Narail Meanwhile accused Zahidul Islam, 18, former student of the same Madrasah of Kakoli and son of Mujibur Rahman of Kashabhog union was admitted to Dhaka Medical Hospital on Saturday night after he got brutally beaten by the locals after the incident. Kakoli was talking to her would be husband on phone in her house when Zahidul entered the house through a window and took her behind the house. There he stabbed her neck with a knife and hearing her cry Kakoli’s family members nabbed Zahidul. Locals locked him up in a room after beating. Also read: BCL leader stabbed to death in Rangamati Aktar Hossain, officer-in-Charge of Palong police station said the body was handed over to the family after an autopsy. He said a murder case will be filed under section 302 of penal code following the complaint lodged by victim’s brother Faruk Hossain on Saturday night. 

A mob lynched a woman and injured another on suspicion that they were snatchers, police said on Monday. The mob attack on the women occurred on Sunday at Boro Balmantachar in Nawabganj upazila in Dhaka, according to police. The dead had been identified as Runa Akter, 45, wife of Purok Mia of Nasirbag in Brahmanbaria district. The second woman identified as Popy, 20 was undergoing treatment at the upazila health complex. Also read: Mob beats man to death suspecting him of being a thief  The two women snatched a gold chain from Zahura Begum, a resident of Boro Balmantarchar village, as she was waiting in a queue for taking Covid jabs at a local centre on Sunday afternoon, said Sirajul Islam Sheikh, officer-in-charge of Nawabganj Police Station,  Zahura’s husband Hazrat Ali caught the two women with the help of local people. The two females were taken to the house of Zuhra, where they were mercilessly beaten, also joined by local people. Also read: 2 ‘robbers’ killed in Habiganj lynch-mob attack Runa was declared dead by doctors after the badly mauled women were taken to a local hospital.  Her body was sent to Mitford hospital on Monday for post-mortem. Police arrested Zuhra while her husband Hazrat Ali escaped. The OC said legal action will be taken against those involved in the mob-beating.

A suspected thief was killed in a lynch mob-attack at Pashra village in Sadar upazila early Tuesday. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Also read:2 'robbers' killed in Habiganj lynch-mob attack Locals said  a gang in the area used to loot valuables from people’s  houses after making them unconscious by providing toxic elements in food. Dilip Biswas, a resident in the area, said around 1:30 am a sound of knocking the door was heard and the inmates of the house raised a hue and cry suspecting something unusual .    Later, local people managed to catch one person aged about 30 and gave him a good thrashing, leaving him injured.  Also read:Lalmonirhat mob killing: DIG, DC pay spot visit   On information, police rushed to the spot and took him to a local hospital where doctors declared him dead, said Sumon Ranjan Sarkar, assistant superintendent of Faridpur Police.

A suspected robber died from a mob beating in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila on early Monday.

Rangpur divisional commissioner and Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) of Rangpur Range visited the spot where a rabid and belligerent mob beat a man to death and burned his body in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila accusing him of ‘disrespecting the Quran’.

The High Court on Sunday issued five directives to prevent repetition of rumours being spread leading to mob beatings,  that claimed several lives last year including that of Taslima Begum Renu.

A suspected robber was killed in a mob beating at Baruikhali village in Kochua upazila early Monday.

Three suspected cattle thieves were beaten to death by a mob at Prembagh village of Abhoynagar upazila early Monday.