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Wife kills sexagenarian husband in Sylhet

SYLHET, June 9: A sexagenarian man was allegedly killed by his second wife sometime during Thursday night in Kanaighat upazila of the district. The deceased was identified as Tayeb Ali, 60, of village Bashbari in Jhingabari union of the upazila. Police sources said that some members of Tayeb Ali's family found him dead in his bed on Friday morning from head injury and tried to hide the matter. As they were arranging burial of the body at 5 pm, a local source tipped the police. Police immediately rushed to the spot and recovered the body at 6 pm. They also took Tayeb Ali's wife, Kamala Banu, to the thana for interrogation, reports UNB.

4 held with fuel oil in Bagerhat

BAGERHAT, Jun 9: Navy men arrested four people along with 350 litres of fuel oil from Mongla port ferry ghat area on Saturday. Navy sources said acting on a tip-off, they raided the ghat area in the morning and arrested them red handed while pilfering oil. Sources said that an organized gang is engaged in pilfering fuel oil from different vessels in the ghat area since long. Meanwhile, in a special anti-crime drive, police arrested 28 people from different parts of the nine upazilas of the district Friday night, reports UNB.

Body recovered

JESSORE, June 9: A man was found dead in a drain in front of the police super office in the district town on Thursday evening. On information, police recovered the body of Habib Ahmed Siddiqui Chanchal, 32, son of Akter Siddiqui of Mission para in the town, and sent it to the District General Hospital morgue for autopsy. Witnesses said Chanchal fell into the drain when he was trying to escape after being chased by some people. Victim's family, however, claimed that it was a preplanned murder. The police have already started investigation and said the reason behind the death of the young man would be unearthed soon, reports UNB.

Two food godowns lying abandoned

SUNAMGANJ, Jun 9: Two food godowns with a capacity of 1100 metric tones, out of eight, in Jamalganj upazila, have been lying in abandoned condition for the last 15 years. Food official Abdul Gafur said with the renovation of the two dilapidated godowns government could collect more food grains than the target. He said the government has fixed a target of collecting 839 metric tons of paddy and 323 metric tons of rice for the six godowns. According to the sources, collection of food grains at Sachna Food Godown is being hampered due to manpower crisis as the post of 18 officials and employees have been lying vacant since long, reports UNB.

Phensidyl recovered

COMILLA, June 9: A special team of RAB arrested a drug peddler along with 500 bottles of phensidyl syrup and 25 kgs of hemp from Sreepur Kaneshtala area of Sadar Dakkhin upazila Thursday night. RAB sources said the team arrested M Shawkat Ali Shapan, 32, and also recovered the phensidyl and hemp from his possession. Shapan was involved in drug smuggling and peddling since long, the sources said, reports UNB.

Listed terrorist held

JESSORE, June 9: Police arrested listed terrorist from Hudhapara village under Chowgachha upazila of the district on Saturdayl. Police said, the arrested was identified as Giausuddin, 32, sonof Mobarok Biswasd of the same village. Acting on a tip-off, a team of the police raided the village and arrested him, reports BSS.