Folk music prog bombed: Baul killed

Unidentified miscreants exploded several crude bombs at a folk music programme in Jessore on Monday night. They also chopped to death a Baul (folk singer). The attack which also left two other Bauls injured took place around 11pm at Dumdia village under Sadar Upazila’s Deyara union, police said. One of the injured claimed the attackers were from the same village. The deceased was identified as Baul Moktar Hossain. The injured – ‘Sabbir’ and ‘Basir’ – were admitted at Jessore 250-Bed Hospital, said Kotwali Police Station OC Emdadul Haque. Police rescued the trio and rushed them to the hospital as soon as the law enforcers arrived at the scene, but emergency unit doctor at the hospital Kajal Mallik said Hossain was brought dead. He might have been killed on the spot, the doctor said. Injured Sabbir told reporters that about 10 of them were holding the folk singing programme at a mango grove at Dumdia. The attackers came around 11pm and exploded at least six crude bombs. Then they fled after severely hacking Moktar Hossain with sharp weapons. When asked who were the attackers, another injured Basir said ‘Montu’, ‘Rustom’, ‘Asgar’, ‘Ebadul’ and several others of Deyara village were among them, according to bdnews24.com.