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Three prisoners die in one day at DMCH
Shahadat Hossain Liton, 52, Abul Bashar, 58, and Abdul Kaiyum, 62, have died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in one day. One of them was an inmate of Kashimpur High Security Central Jail while the other two were inmates of Dhaka Central Jail. They died at separate times on Sunday morning.
‘I want to see him once before I die’, father’s plea to get back missing son
Ismail Hossain, a father whose son went missing, has said he wants to see his child once before death after searching for eight years without any success. Parents of missing children, some searching for eight years, some for one and a half months and others for just 38 days, broke down in tears as they demanded the return of their sons and daughters at a press conference held at the Shafiqul Kabir auditorium of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) on Sunday.
Body on expressway: bus supervisor-assistant’s ‘confession’, driver on remand
Supervisor Saju Laskar and assistant Mahbub Alam Monir of ‘Raj Classic’ bus have given confessional statements in court in the murder case filed over the recovery of the body of bus passenger Ismail Hossain from Dhaka Elevated Expressway. In the same case bus driver Sohel Rana has been sent on four days’ remand for questioning.
Husband shot housewife in Darus Salam, says RAB
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Abdul Mannan alias Abdul Hannan, the husband of housewife Jesmin Begum, for shooting her at their own house in Darus Salam of the capital. The organization is saying that the claim of miscreants firing from outside has not been found true in the investigation. Mannan himself shot his wife after becoming excited at one stage of a family quarrel.
Bus staffers killed passenger to loot money, dumped body on expressway: Police
Police have arrested a bus driver and two of his assistants in connection with the recovery of a body from the Dhaka Elevated Expressway, with the victim's mouth and hands bound with tape. Police claim the trio killed Ismail Hossain with the motive of robbing the money he was carrying.
Body with taped mouth found on Dhaka Elevated Expressway, driver held
A driver has been arrested in connection with the murder of a man whose body was found with his mouth taped on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway. The accused is Sohel Rana (40), arrested by RAB-1 from the capital's Mohakhali area on Saturday, September 5.
Motorcycle breaches PM's security cordon, youth held
A youth has been taken into custody for allegedly breaching the security cordon of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's motorcade on a motorcycle near Farmgate in Dhaka. The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon, September 5, in the Khamarbari area as the Prime Minister was en route to a BNP rally.
7-year-old abduction victim rescued, woman held
Police have rescued a seven-year-old child who was abducted from the capital's Kafrul area. A woman named Juthi Akhter (22) has been arrested in this connection.
Chinese national's body recovered from hotel room in Uttara
Police have recovered the body of a Chinese national, identified as Li Xingqiang, from a room at a hotel in Uttara. He was approximately 40 years old.
Police officers plotting against government identified: IGP
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ali Hossain Fakir has said police officers allegedly involved in conspiracies against the government have been identified.