Narsingdi
Five dead as van ploughs into pedestrians in Narsingdi
A van veered off the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Narsingdi and ploughed into a group of people walking along the high-speed corridor on Thursday morning, leaving five of them dead.
Police suspect the van driver dozed off at the wheel.
The deceased were identified as Faruq Mia,50, Mashakin, 45, Ripon Mia, 35, Shahjahan Mia, 50, and Bacchu Mia,30, all residents of the district's Raipura upazila.
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The accident occurred around 8am when the driver suddenly lost the control of the speeding van and hit the pedestrians near the Mahmudabad Bazar Machine House area, leaving three of them dead on spot, said Mozammel Hossain, officer-in-charge of Bhairab highway police station.
Two injured were rushed to Bhairab Hospital where doctors declared one of them dead on arrival and another after few hours of admission, he said.
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The bodies have been kept at the hospital morgue for post-mortem, the OC added. "Legal steps are underway in this regard."
Youth’s wrists slit over extramarital affair in Narsingdi
A relative of a 25-year-old young man allegedly slit his wrists over an extramarital affair with his aunt at Noakanda in Palash upazila of Narsingdi district.
The victim was identified as Hadiul Mia, son of Morshed Mia of Shibpur upazila of the district.
Md Elias, officer-in-charge of Palash Police Station, said Hadiul developed an extra marital affair with his aunt.
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When the families of Hadiul and his aunt came to know of their relationship, they often got into arguments.
Jalal Mia, brother-in-law of Hadiul’s aunt, did not take the matter easily and he called Hadiul at his home promising to give him a job on Monday evening.
When Hadiul took the bait, Jalal took Hadiul to an abandoned place, slit his wrists and fled the scene.
Hearing Hadiul's cries, locals people rescued him and took him to Narsingdi District Hospital from where he was shifted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital for better treatment.
Businessman shot dead in Narsingdi
A 45-year-old businessman was shot dead allegedly by some miscreants at Khamarerchar in Belabo upazila of Narsingdi on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Kabir Hossain, son of Abdul Hai of Khamarerchar village.
Deceased’s family members said the assailants attacked Kabir, a transport businessman, when he went to a garage for repairing his vehicle in Khamarerchar area at 12pm on Saturday.
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Later he ran and came on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway where the miscreants stabbed him indiscriminately and shot him, leaving him dead on the spot.
On information, police rushed to the spot and recovered the body, said Safayet Hossain, officer-in-charge of Belabo Police Station.
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The body was sent to a hospital morgue for an autopsy, said the OC adding that the motive behind the killing could not be known immediately.
30 hurt in Narsingdi clash
At least 30 people were injured in a clash between two groups over previous enmity at Nalbata village in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi early Monday, said police.
The clash broke around 6:30am between the supporters of former Amirganj union parishad member Alauddin and the supporters of former member Gulzar following enmity over establishing dominance in the village, said Gobinda Sarkar, officer-in-charge (OC) (Investigation) of Raipura police station.
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The two rival groups opened fire on each other during the clash, he said.
The injured are undergoing treatment at different hospitals including Narsingdi Sadar Hospital, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), Brahmanbaria’s Nabinagar Health Complex and Bancharampur Health Complex.
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These two groups locked into clashes several times in the last six months, said locals.
Police brought the situation under control around 8:30am, said the OC. Additional police were deployed in the area to prevent any untoward situation, he added.
Overzealous woman in viral incident at Narsingdi station held for assault
A woman who assaulted a girl for wearing western attire in an incident last week at Narsingdi Railway Station has been detained from Shibpur upazila, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) announced on Monday.
The detainee was identified as Marzia Aktar alias Shila alias Shayla, a matchmaker of Narsingdi Sadar upazila.
Rab-11 Narsingdi Camp Commander Flight Lieutenant Touhidul Mobin Khan said they detained the woman from Shibpur upazila in the early hours of Monday.
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On Monday, a court sent the woman on remand for three days, said Ferdous Ahmed Biswas, officer-in-charge of Bhairab Railway Police Station.
On May 20, a three-member team from Narsingdi District Administration detained another man named Ismail Hossain, 25, after identifying him from CCTV footage of the incident, said ATM Musa, station master of the railway station.
On May 18, a woman at the Narsingdi Railway Station made distasteful comments at the young girl and two boys with her who were waiting at the station for a train.
The girl was wearing a crop-top and jeans and the boys were also wearing western outfits.
At one point the woman locked in an altercation with them and some local miscreants started beating the youths and harassed the girl, said the station master.
“The girl had to take shelter in the station master’s room to save herself. The matter was resolved later with my intervention,” said ATM Musa.
The matter sparked debate among netizens after video footage of the incident went viral on social media and several news media published reports on it.
Woman dies due to ‘wrong treatment’ in Narsingdi
A woman died while giving birth to a baby, due to alleged wrong treatment administered by doctors at Marie Stopes Maternity Clinic in Narsingdi on Friday night.
The deceased was identified as Saleha Begum, wife of Hannan Miah of Shalidha area of the city.
Responding to the allegation, police have arrested two people including the manager of the clinic.
Relatives of the deceased said Saleha was admitted to the clinic on Friday for an ultrasonogram.
Helena Halim, a duty doctor, recommended a cesarean section. Though Saleha did not agree, she was taken to the Operation Theatre (OT), citing the child's condition was not good.
Later, she was referred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where duty doctors declared her dead on arrival.
Agitated relatives besieged the clinic and vandalised it.
On information, the mobile court visited the spot, said Md. Nurul Islam, civil surgeon of Narsingdi.
Legal action will be taken against the offenders, he said.
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Throat-slit bodies of mother, 2 children found in Narsingdi
A woman and her two minor children were found dead with their throats slit in their house in Babla village of the district's Belabo upazila on Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Rahima Begum,36, her son Rabbi Sheikh,12, and daughter Rakiba Sheikh,7.
Rahima used to live with her two children in the house as her husband works as a painter in Kishoreganj.
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Neighbours said as no one came out of their house for a long time in the morning they started knocking the door.
Getting no response, they broke the fence of their house and found their bodies lying on the floor in a pool of blood.
Rahima’s husband Gias Uddin Sheikh suspected they were killed following previous enmity over a land.
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Safayet Hossain, Officer-in-Charge of Belabo police station, said locals informed the matter to police after finding them dead in the morning.
“The bodies have been sent for autopsy. An investigation will start soon to identify the killers,” said the OC.
Narsingdi college teacher held for beating students with aluminum pipes
The principal of a college in Palash upazila of Narsingdi has been detained allegedly for beating up 16 students of class XII with aluminum pipes, police said on Tuesday.
Amir Hossain Gazi, the principal of Palash Central College, was detained on Monday evening from his residence in Panditpara of the upazila, said Md Elias Mia, officer-in-charge (OC) of Palash police station.
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The students informed that most of the students of science group left the classroom on Sunday on information that the teacher would not come to take the sixth class of the day. But the teacher came to the class and then a small number of students joined the class.
On the following day, principal Amir Hossain Gazi entered the classroom with an aluminum pipe and beat up around 16 students who remained absent in the previous day’s classs, leaving them seriously injured, alleged the students.
The incident sparked anger among the students and their parents. The students posted photographs of the incident on social media, demanding justice.
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Meanwhile, District Secondary Education Officer Gautam Mitra said a three-member probe committee headed by Upazila Education Officer Milon Krishna Haldar has been formed. “Next step will be taken as per the report of the committee.”
Principal Amir Hossain Gazi said, "I only brought the students under discipline. Now some people are trying to tarnish my image by making it an issue.”
Rab arrests 5 for allegedly swindling Tk 200 cr in Narsingdi
Rapid Action Battalion on Saturday night arrested five members of a fraudster gang from Narsingdi’s Bhelanagar area for swindling Tk 200 crore from investors.
The arrestees are- organisation’s chairman Shah Sultan Multipurpose Financial Institute Md. Shah Alam and his associates Md Delwar Hossain Sikder, Kazi Mane Ullah, Md Sumon Mollah and A. Hannan Mollah.
Rab nabbed them while they were holding a secret meeting, according to media release of the elite force.
In 2010, Shah Alam formed a Shariah-based financial organisation called Shah Sultan Multipurpose Financial Institute in Ghoradia area of Chinishpur union under Narsingdi Sadar upazila.
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During Rab interrogation, Alam said that his company had over 300 employees who were hardly paid. Besides he formed an executive body of 24 members and 20 directors who ran four companies under the organization.
They used to collect money from customers through DPS on a monthly basis promising high profit. So far, they have collected around Tk 200 crore.
When the depositors, hard-hit by Covid-19, started asking for their money back, the organization closed the office and the staff went underground, the media release said.
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Omar Farooq, managing director of the company and Masood Rana, deputy managing director of the company bought 5-6 acres of land in different places of Narsingdi with the investors’ money. Besides, they bought 7-8 acres of land for the company, they said during the interrogation.
Post-polls violence: 2 killed, 20 injured in Narsingdi
Two people were killed and some 20 more injured on Sunday during a clash between the supporters of newly elected chairman and former chairman of Bashgari Union Parishad in Narsingdi.
The deceased were identified as Rubel Mia, 26 and Mamun Mia,30.
The incident occurred in the morning at Amtali boat terminal in the Raipura upazila.
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According to locals, supporters of former UP Chairman Kazi Ashraful Haque had to remain away from the locality for two months after the election due to conflicts with the newly elected UP chairman Zakir Hasan Ratul.
As some supporters of Ashraful tried to enter the area on Sunday a clash with the Zakir Hasan group started and both the parties attacked with spears and fired bullets at each other, they said.
Rubel died on the spot after being hit by a bullet on the head and Mamun succumbed to his injuries at Bancharampur Upazila Health Complex later.
Others injured in the clash are currently being treated at Narsingdi Sadar Hospital and other local private hospitals.
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Ataur Rahman, Inspector of Raipura police station said, “ Rubel Mia’s death was confirmed in the clash and his body is currently kept at Narsingdi Sadar Hospital. Another man’s death was reported but could not be confirmed yet.”
Police have been deployed in the area and the situation is currently under control, he said.