RAJSHAHI, Jan 28 (UNB/bdnews24.com): A local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami was killed in a 'gunfight' with members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police in Nalkhola area under Matihar thana of the city on early Wednesday.
The deceased was identified as Nurul Islam Munsi, secretary of the city ward no 30 unit Jamaat and also a professor of Islamia College of the city.
Assistant police commissioner Iftekhayer Alam said a team of DB police launched a drive along with Nurul Islam to recover firearms in the area in the dead of night.
Sensing the presence of the law enforcers, activists of Jamaat-Shibir fired gunshots in a bid to snatch him, forcing the law enforcers to retaliate, which triggered a gunfight, leaving him dead on the spot.
Masuma Akter, wife of Nurul Islam, said DB police had picked up her husband from in front of a shop named Padma Offset in the city about 9:00 pm on Tuesday night.
She also claimed the DB police admitting her husband's arrest said that he (Nurul Islam) would be produced before a court on Wednesday.
Police said he was accused in 11 cases of violence that included murdering a policeman.
Two police constables were also injured during the 'encounter', he said.
Later he was declared dead by the doctors at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital when he was taken there, said the police commissioner.
Five rounds of ammunition and 10 hand-made bombs were recovered from the spot, he said.
Another report adds: The first day of the 48-hour hartal in Rajshahi division, enforced by the local unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir protesting the killing of a Chapainawabganj unit leader by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), is going on peacefully Wednesday.
The shutdown programme of the student body of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami that began at 6:00 am will end at 6:00am on Friday.
Jamaat leader killed in Rajshahi \\\'gunfight\\\'
FE Team | Published: January 29, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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