Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said on Sunday there is no security threat following the killing of lawmaker Monzurul Islam Liton, report agencies.
"The government is not alarmed at security issue in the country as law enforcers are working to identify killers of Liton," he told newsmen at his ministry office.
The minister assured that law enforcers would find out the terrors, who killed Liton at his house in Gaibandha on Saturday evening, and bring them to book.
"This is the first such of attack and it was a new technique that a group of five terrors equipped with firearms entered a MP's house and killed him," he added.
Kamal said the government will arrest killers within short time and unearth the mystery behind the murder.
He said police in several drives detained 18 suspects in connection with the killing of MP for interrogation. After shooting MP Liton at close range, the miscreants left the place hurriedly on a motorcycle. Then, Liton was admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital, where the attending doctors declared him dead, the minister said.
Replying to a query on foreign intelligence information about terrorist attacks in the country, he said the law enforcers are working on it.
On miscreant attack on a local Awami League leader in Khulna on Saturday, the minister said police arrested one person in connection with the firing on ZA Mahmood Don. A woman Shipra Kundu was killed in the fire in Khulna yesterday.
The arrestee is identified as Electric Babu, who supplied a pistol for killing Don, he added.
Law enforcers in several drives arrested 15 people from different places of the district from Saturday night to Sunday morning in connection with the killing of Gaibandha-1 MP Manjurul Islam Liton, report agencies.
Besides, the district administration deployed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members in several points of Sundarganj upazila to ward off any untoward incident.
Meanwhile, Sundarganj upazila Awami League (AL) enforced a day-long hartal from Sunday morning in the upazila protesting the murder.
The agitated leaders and activists of AL blocked two trains at Bamandanga Railway Station in the morning.
Goalm Mostafa, general secretary of Sundarganj upazila unit of AL, said they called the day-long hartal on Sunday demanding immediate arrest of Liton's killers.
A three-member delegation of AL, led by its central leader Jahangir Kabir Nanak, visited the family members of the slain MP on Sunday.
Members of Jamaat-Shibir are involved in the killing of Liton, Nanak said while talking to reporters.
An autopsy was conducted on the body of the slain lawmaker at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) around 11:00 pm on Saturday, said Dr Bimal Chandra of RMCH.
Manjurul Islam Liton, MP of Gaibandha-1 constituency, was shot to death by miscreants at his family residence at Bamandanga village in Sundarganj upazila on Saturday.
Superintendent of Gaibandha police Ashraful Islam said two unidentified men entered Liton's house around 6:00 pm saying they wanted to meet him.
As the unsuspecting MP went to the guestroom to talk to them, the gunmen opened fire at him.
Hit by bullets in the chest, Liton was taken to Rangpur Medical College Hospital where he died around 7:37pm, said officer-in-charge (OC) of Sundarganj thana Atiar Rahman.
Liton hit headlines after shooting a minor boy, Sourav (8), son of Sazu Miah of Gopalcharan village in the upazila, on October 2 last year.
Meanwhile, the namaz-e-janaza of Manjurul Islam Liton will be held at 10:00 am today (Monday) at the South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Bhaban, said a Parliament Secretariat handout.
From the Parliament complex, his body will be taken to Gaibandha for his burial in his family graveyard at 4:00 pm.
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