Youth found dead at jute field in Lalmonirhat
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The body of an unidentified youth has been recovered from a jute field in Budhar Banshertal area of Mahendranagar union in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila.
On information, police recovered the body yesterday morning, reports our correspondent quoting Shah Alam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Lalmonirhat Sadar Police Station.
A bag full of clothes was recovered from the spot, said the OC. He said no injury mark was found on the body.
The man might have been strangled to death, the OC said, adding that the body was sent to the morgue of Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital for autopsy.
Couple attacked for trying to stop land-grabbers in Lalmonirhat Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
A couple was attacked and critically injured when they tried to stop miscreants from forcibly grabbing their land in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila this morning, the police said.
The injured are Haradhan Chandra Roy (38) and his wife Smriti Rani Roy (30), reports our local correspondent quoting Shah Alam, officer-in-charge of Lalmonirhat Sadar Police Station.
Around 10 miscreants, led by one Ramzan Ali of the area, allegedly started ploughing a piece of Haradhan s land this morning in an attempt to grab it illegally, the OC said quoting Haradhan.
When he and his wife tried to stop them, the miscreants stabbed them in the head, back, arms and legs. Locals rescued the injured couple and admitted them at Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital, the police official added.
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Bangladesh: Journalist from Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha assaulted and tortured
Jahangir Alam Shahin, a district correspondent of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha was assaulted and tortured by members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Kulaghat, Lalmonirhat district, while trying to get information regarding incidents of drug smuggling in the area. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) demands a thorough investigation into the assault.
Journalist Jahangir Alam Shahin and his friend Sohag Islam were attacked by BGB men with sticks on April 15. They sustained injuries to their eyes, necks and bodies when they arrived in the Kulaghat area to report on drug smuggling.
Man detained for sexually assaulting children in Lalmonirhat
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Police held a man on charges of sexually assaulting three children in Lalmonirhat yesterday.
The detainee, Ansar Ali (46), is a shopkeeper in Shahitari area of Lalmonirhat municipality, reports our local correspondent quoting Shaha Alam, officer-in-charge of Lalmonirhat Sadar Police Station.
Ansar allegedly offered the three girls, aged 8-10, ice cream and took them to his house in absence of his wife, the OC said. As the culprit was in the act, one of the victims managed to escape, and ran out of the house crying for help, the OC said, adding that locals then rescued the other children and informed police.