Schoolteacher chopped to death in Barisal
Sunday, 4 January 2015
BARISAL, Jan 3 (UNB): A schoolteacher was chopped to death by rivals over a land dispute in Wazirpur upazila of the district on Friday night.
The deceased was indentified as Bipul Chakrabarti, 42, a teacher of WB Institution and a resident of Shikarpur in the upazila headquarters.
Locals there had been a longstanding dispute between Bipul and his rival over the ownership of a piece of land in the area.
The rival group swooped on the schoolteacher around 7pm and hacked him indiscriminately, leaving him critically injured.
Locals rushed him to Wazirpur Upazila Health Complex where he succumbed to his injuries.