A woman and her SSC examinee daughter were hacked to death over land dispute in Durgapur village under Gopalganj sadar upazila on Sunday (February 18, 2024) night. The deceased were identified as Beauty Begum, 40, and her daughter Lamia, 16, of Durgapur village under Jalalabad union of the upazila. The daughter was an SSC examinee from Khalia United Academy. Police and locals there had been a long dispute between Lamia’s father Tuku and her uncle Harun over ancestral land in the village. Around 7:30 am on Sunday, as Lamia entered uncle Harun’s yard while talking on her mobile phone he asked her to leave the yard and hurled abusive words, leading to an altercation between Lamia’s mother Beauty and her uncle. Read more: Man killed ‘by daughter’ in Chuadanga, wife, daughter held At one stage of the altercation over the matter, Harun, equipped with sharp weapons, hacked Beauty and Lamia, leaving them critically injured. Hearing their screams, locals rushed in and took them to 250-bed Adhunik Hospital in Sadar upazila where physicians declared them dead upon arrival. Sadar police station Officer-in-Charge (investigation) Harun-Or-Rashid though the accused and his family went into hiding shortly after the murders police managed to arrest Harun. The bodies were sent to the Sadar hospital morgue for autopsy, the police officer added. Read more: Man hacked to death over extramarital affair in Rangpur

At least 20 people were injured in a clash between students of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia and local residents following an altercation on Thursday night. The identities of all the injured could not be known immediately but some of them have been admitted to IU Central Hospital, said Rofiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Shailakupa police station. Read:BCL dissolves Islamic University unit committee IU students, however, claimed that 19 of the 20 injured were their peers, including Tanvir Ahmad of the folklore studies department, and Rezwan Siddiqi Kabbo of the law faculty. An outsider, named Suruj Ali, was also injured. In fact, around 10pm, a heated argument broke out between some IU students and the staff of a local bus near Sheikhpara Bazar, with the former accusing the latter of misbehaving with their peers that evening. The altercation took an ugly turn when the bus staff and some locals attacked the students with sticks and bricks, leaving 19 of them injured, according to eye-witnesses. Later, other students rescued the injured from the clutches of the attackers and took them to hospital for treatment.  The locals, later, blocked the Kushtia-Khulna highway, armed with sharp weapons, stalling traffic on the high-speed corridor for nearly two hours. "After talks, our team managed to disperse the protesters and cleared the jam," said OC Rofiqul. Read: Foundation stones of two halls laid at Islamic University Meanwhile, a team from IU proctorial body, including assistant proctor Amjad Hossain, tried to pacify the agitated students, who vowed to resort to protests if the university authorities failed to solve the issue soon. IU proctor Professor M Jahangir Hossain said, “We are trying to resolve the issue”.

A 55-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by some people in the Amjhupi Purbapara area of the district's Sadar upazila on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Abul Bashar Molla, a resident of the Amjhupi area. Shah Dara Khan, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said Abdul's son Salahuddin had constructed a speed-breaker in front of his grocery shop. Read: Youth beaten dead by rivals in Jhenaidah On Wednesday, Salauddin had an altercation with the driver and the salesman of Speed Energy Drink company as their vehicle got stuck while negotiating the speed-breaker. At one stage, the workers of Meherpur Palli Bidyut Samity also joined them and beat Salauddin up mercilessly. When Abul tried to save his son, he was also beaten up. A critically injured Abul died on the way to hospital, the OC said.