BNP leader killed in N'ganj--

NARAYANGANJ, May 21 (UNB): A local leader of BNP has been stabbed to death by some miscreants at Kaunda in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj district.

The deceased is Osman Goni, office secretary of Araihazar upazila unit of BNP and son of Abdur Rashid of Boro Binai Char in the upazila.

Witnesses said a group of armed miscreants waylaid Osman Goni on Wednesday night and stabbed him indiscriminately, leaving him injured.

Later, he was taken to a local hospital from there he was shifted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries in the early hours of Thursday.

Mahfuz Bhuiyan Babul, a witness said, "We had bought a piece of land in Kaundar Chak, and workers were cutting soil from there and loading it onto a dump truck. I was sitting in the vehicle when a group of armed, masked men suddenly attacked Osman Goni."