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Kushtia divided by Argentina, Brazil as World Cup fever grips Bangladesh
With one of the most eagerly anticipated World Cups just around the corner now, supporters of Brazil and Argentina have already started challenging and bickering with each other with the speculation of who is going to the final.
The flags of Argentina and Brazil fly everywhere.
Like football fans from all over the world, football lovers in Bangladesh's Kushtia are also excited.
To make this World Cup memorable, supporters of Brazil and Argentina from Bakchi Satpankhia of Kumarkhali's Jagannathpur Union and Shyamganj of Gopgram Union of Khoksa Upazila aln being htheir favorite team's flags on the trees and poles on both sides of the roads for a month.
Football lovers here are carrying out various activities including flying banners, erecting festoons, hoisting flags at various places to show their support and love for their favourite teams.
As a part of this work, they made two giant flags of Brazil and Argentina.
Among them, the Argentine flag is about 1050 hands long while Brazilian fans hang about 850 hand-long flags.
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Since 2010, the local residents have been creating such flags.
People of different ages from different areas are flocking to Gopgram to have a glimpse of these flags.
Argentina supporter Shamim said, "This year, the players of the favorite team, Argentina, are playing well. I hope we will beat Brazil in the final and take the cup.'
On the other hand, Rashidul, a supporter of Brazil, said, 'We are five-time champions. This time we will take the cup. But I want to see Argentina as a rival in the final.
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Syed Ashiqur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Khoksa police station, said, there is no problem with that people will support their respective teams but care should be taken so that the law and order situation does not deteriorate.
"Law enforcers are aware of this," the OC added.
Teen girl found dead on Kushtia rail tracks
Police recovered the body of a teenage girl from a rail track in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia on Saturday night, police said.
The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Locals informed police after finding the body lying on the CMB rail gate area of Kumarkhali on the Kushtia-Rajbari railway line, Md Mohsin Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kumarkhali Police Station, said.
On information, police rushed to the spot and recovered the body.
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As the accident occurred on the railway line, legal action will be taken by the railway police, added the OC.
Ashiq, a resident of the local area, said “We suspect the teen was run over by the Rajbari-bound Tungipara Express train as it left Kushtia just before the body was found."
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UP chairman, 5 others get life term for murder in Kushtia
A Kushtia court on Thursday sentenced six people including a Union Parishad (UP) chairman and his son to life term imprisonment for killing a man around seven years back.
Kusthia Additional District and Sessions Judge-1 Md Tajul Islam also fined the convicts Tk 20,000 each, in default of which they will have to serve one more in jail, said Anup Kumar Nandy, public prosecutor of the court.
Besides, the court also acquitted 15 people as the allegations brought against them could not be proved.
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The convicts are Sadar upazila’s Alampur UP chairman and former general secretary of the Sadar upazila unit Awami League Akharuzzaman Biswas, 52, his son Mahmudul Hasan, 30, his brothers Habil Uddin Biswas, 49 and Babul Biswas, 46, Rashedul Islam Biddyut, 34 and Masud Gayen, 38.
Of them, Rashedul and Masud were tried in absentia.
According to the case statement, the convicts stabbed rival group activist Molla Masud Karim to death centering the UP polls in Dahkula village under the Sadar upazila on April 28, 2016.
On the following day, victim’s brother Mahbubul Karim Molla filed a murder case.
Police pressed chargesheet against the accused on January 4, 2017.
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The court handed down the judgment after completing all procedures in the case, the PP added.
Schoolteacher hacked dead in Kushtia flat
A schoolteacher was hacked to death at her house in Kushtia town on Sunday.
The deceased has been identified as Roksana Khanam, 52, wife of Khondker Mostafizur Rahman of the area and a senior teacher of English at Kushtia Zila School.
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Nawroz Kabir Nishat, nephew of the deceased, said they found the door of Roksana’s flat locked from inside when they went to call her up around 9:30am.
“Getting no response, we called 999 and police asked us to broke the door open. We found the blood-stained body of our aunt on her bed and saw injury marks on her head. All the furniture and clothes were found scattered. We immediately informed police about the incident, who reached the spot around 11:00am,” Nishat said.
Delwar Hossain Khan, Officer In-charge (OC) of Kushtia Sadar Police Station the miscreants entered the house through the veranda and left in the same way.
The body of the deceased has been sent to Kushtia General Hospital morgue for an autopsy. “We are currently investigating the matter,” said Delwar.
The No: 285, six-storied house in Block-D of Kushtia Town’s Housing Society was owned by Roksana, where she used to live alone due to having no children and her husband being away for his work.
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Md Eftekharul Islam, Principal (Acting) of Kushtia Zila School, expressed shock upon learning about the incident.
“Besides being a good teacher, Roksana was a good human being too. I can’t imagine her having enmity with anyone. We demand a thorough investigation of the murder and exemplary punishment for the killers,” Eftekharul said.
Man stabbed dead ‘by wife’ in Kushtia
A 37-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by his wife following a family feud in Kushtia town early Monday.
The deceased was identified as Md Sabbir, a resident of the town.
At one stage of altercation, Sabbir’s second wife Rozina Khatun stabbed him at their home in Milpara area around 2am and fled the scene, said Delwar Hossain Khan, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kushtia Model police station quoting witnesses.
He was rushed to Kushtia General Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries around 7am.
Sabbir and Rozina got married a month ago, he added.
The body has been kept at the hospital morgue. And efforts are on to arrest Rozina, said the OC.
3 youths killed as two motorcycles collide head-on with lorry in Kushtia
Three youths were killed and another was seriously injured as two motorcycles collided head-on with a lorry in Kushtia on Friday.
The victims who died were identified as Jewel, 25, of Mohini Mill area of Kushtia, Faruk Mistry, 24, son of Shaukat Ali of Kumargara area and Rahul, 20, son of Manohar Sheikh of the same area.
Injured Biplab, 20, from the Serhas area, was rushed to Kushtia General Hospital from where he was referred to Dhaka for better treatment.
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The accident occurred near the Battail Ansar camp on the Kushtia-Jhenaidah highway around 8:30 pm on Friday, said Idris Ali, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kushtia Highway Police.
The victims were coming towards Kushtia on two motorcycles and trying to pass each other. Suddenly both motorcycles collided head-on with a lorry near Battail Ansar camp on the Kushtia-Jhenaidah highway, leaving two dead on the spot.
Another one died after being rushed to hospital, added the OC.
Kushtia filling station fire: Death toll rises to 5
The death toll from the deadly fire at a filing station in Kushtia's Bheramara upazila rose to five, with another victim succumbing to his burn injuries at a hospital in Dhaka today (September 7, 2022).
The deceased was identified as Md Bidyut Hossain, 25, who worked as an accountant at the fuel pump and a resident of the Porankhali area of the upazila.
Bidyut, who sustained only 17% burn injuries in the fire, died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in the early hours of Wednesday, said Mojibur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Bheramara Police Station.
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Earlier on August 18, another worker Rimon succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.
On August 12, the fire broke out at Dafadar Filling Station in the Mahishdoba area around 7.30 pm while unloading of fuel from an oil tanker.
Two workers -- Shahajul, 35, son of Shahajuddin and Bijoy,16, son of Touhidul Islam of Digholkandi village in Bheramara upazila -- died on the spot while three people sustained burn injuries.
No arrest has been made in this connection as no complaint was lodged, said the OC, adding that "an investigation is on".
Tenth-graders crushed by speeding train in Kushtia
In a tragic accident, two tenth-graders were crushed to death under the wheels of a speeding train in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Nayeem Ali, 16, and Ritu Khatun, 15, of the upazila. They were students of Border Guard Public School and College and Nimtala Secondary School of Mirpur, respectively.
The accident occurred around 3:30pm when the students were walking on the rail track on Mirpur Rail Bridge.
When Khulna-bound intercity train Rupsha Express started approaching the track suddenly, they got stuck there.
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Within seconds, the train passed by at full speed and crushed them under its wheels, Monjer Ali, officer-in-charge of Poradaha Railway Police Station, said.
"Both students died on the spot. The bodies were sent to hospital for autopsies," he added.
Traffic accident leaves man dead in Kushtia
A man died as a drum-laden truck hit his motorbike in Shahartali area of the district on Saturday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Moninur Islam Monu, 37, son of late Aftab Biswas of Thanapara area under Kushtia Sadar Upzila. He was an employee of KIAM Metal Industries Limited, a concern of BRB Group.
Witnesses said the accident occurred on Saturday evening, when the speeding truck rammed into Monu’s bike from behind, while he was on his way home after work in front of LGRD Bhaban in the Shahartali area.
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The accident left him dead on the spot, they said.
The mob detained the driver and seized the vehicle and handed over to the police, Delwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kusthtia Model Police Station, told UNB.
Youth accused of sodomizing minor boy in Kushtia
A case was filed accusing a youth of sodomizing a madrasa student in Daulatdia upazila of the district on Friday night.
The mother of the 11-year-old victim, a student of a local madrasa and resident of Hussainabad Kandirpara village, filed the case against the youth identified as Joy, 22, of Hussainabad Mallickpara in the same upazila.
In the case statement, the mother said her madrasa-going son went to a local field to cut grass for their cows on Friday morning.
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The accused tactfully took the boy to a nearby betel leaf orchard and sodomized him for a long time, the statement said.
As the victim didn’t return till noon, the mother searched for him and found him injured in the orchard. Later he disclosed the matter to his mother.
SM Jabid Hasan, officer-in-charge of Daulatdia Police Station, said the victim was admitted to Kushtia Medical College Hospital for a medical test on Saturday morning.
Though the accused has been on the run, efforts are on to nab him, the OC added.