UP chairman shot dead

Staff Correspondent, Khulna:  A Union Parishad chairman was gunned down by miscreants at his Gazirhat home in Dighalia upazila in Khulna.

The deceased Nahid Hossian Mollah, 50, was the chairman of Hamidpur Union Parishad of Kalia upazila in Narail.

The miscreants fired gunshots at Nahid around 4:00am while he was asleep at his home, leaving him critically injured.

He was taken to Khulna Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Dighalia Thana Md. Habibur Rahman confirmed the matter.



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