Two UP chairmen shot dead in Munshiganj, Khulna

The chairmen of Panchgaon Union Parishad (UP) in Munshiganj and Sarappur UP in Khulna have been shot dead allegedly by enemy and unknown assailants respectively, reports UNB.
In Munshiganj, the chairman of Panchgaon Union Parishad (UP) was shot dead allegedly by his friend over the school managing committee election results at Panchgaon in Tongibari upazila of Munshiganj district on Sunday.
The dead is Sumon Haldar.
Shoyeb Ali, officer-in-charge of Tongibari thana, said Nur Mohammad Bhola opened fire on his friend Sumon Haldar, a supporter of winning president candidate Moniruzzaman, at Panchgaon Wahed Ali Dewan High School veranda in the afternoon when the election result was announced, leaving him injured.
Later, he was taken to a hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Nur Mohammad Bhola's cousin Milenur Rahman was defeated in the election and got only two votes.
Police detained three people- Kawsar Haldar, Sheikh Noor, brother of Milenur, and Bhola's brother Nur Hossain from the spot.
In Khulna, a UP chairman, who is also an Awami League (AL) leader, was gunned down by unknown miscreants on his way home from a political programme in Dumuria upazila of Khulna on Saturday night.
The dead, Rabiul Islam (42), was chairman of Sarappur UP and member of the upazila unit of the ruling AL committee.
The victim's brother-in-law Monir Hossain said Rabiul came under gun attack while returning home by a motorbike from a workers' meeting of the AL at night.
The miscreants opened fire on him when he arrived in the East end of Gutudiya Wapda Bridge around 10:00 pm, causing him to fall on the ground from the bike, he said. Sensing the presence of locals, the gunmen fled the scene immediately while the locals first took him to Upazila Health Complex and later shifted to Khulna Medical College Hospital where physicians declared him dead, the brother-in-law said.