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Angry people of Senegati and Krishna Nagar villages
of Tala upazila under Satkhira district yesterday set ablaze
the houses of a UP member Abdul Lalu and Juba Dal leader
Ruhul Quddus for their alleged involvement in the killing of
a UP chairman. FocusBan

Satkhira Correspondent

Several thousand agitated people of Senegati and Krishnanagar villages under Dhandia Union at Tala Upazila yesterday burnt the houses of a UP member and a Jubo Dal leader suspecting their involvement in the murder of Arifuzzaman Chanchal, chairman of Dhandia Union Parishad, on Wednesday.

Over three thousand angry people set fire to the houses of Dhandia UP member Abdul Malek Lalu of village Senegati and Jubo dal leader Ruhul Quddus of village Krishnanagar and burnt them to ashes.

Zobeda Khatun, one of the arrested accused, in her confessional statement before a magistrate on Thursday said chairman Chanchal was killed as per directive of Abdul Malek and Ruhul Quddus.

BNP sources said Abdul Malek Lalu is the secretary of Dhandia Union BNP and Ruhul Quddus is the president of Dhandia Union Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal.

Police rushed to the troubled spots, but failed to control the situation initially. Later, riot police rushed there and brought the situation under control.

The fire fighters from Satkhira extinguished the fire, but by this time all the houses and belongings were burnt to ashes.

Chairman Arifuzzaman Chanchal, son of Asir Uddin of village Sharsha, was also a member of district BNP convening committee. He was abducted by the miscreants and strangled to death on Wednesday morning.

Due to political rivalry, Abdul Malek Lalu and Ruhul Quddus hired the killers to murder him , police said.

Soon after the killing, police arrested four people including Zbeda Khatun and recovered four fire arms from their possessions.

Satkhira Police super (SP) Abu Sufiyan and other police officials visited the spot yesterday.