Police recovered the bodies of two local Awami League leaders from different places in Raipur and Sadar upazilas of the district early Thursday. The deceased were identified as Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, president of Charshahi union unit of Awami League and resident of Rampur village of Sadar upazila, and Abdul Mazid, general secretary of the ward unit of AL in Charpata union of Raipur upazila. In Sadar upazila, AL leader Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan was slaughtered by miscreants in Rampur village of the upazila early in the morning. Anjumara Begum, wife of slain Abdul Mannan, said terrorists had been threatening her husband with death over mobile phone for 15 days. Some unidentified people called Mazid out of the house over phone on Wednesday midnight. As Mazid did not return home even after a long time, the family members began searching him and at one stage, spotted the slaughtered body of Mazid in front of the house early in the morning. On information, police recovered the body and sent it to sadar hospital morgue for an autopsy. Officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station Iqbal Hossain confirmed the incident. On the other hand, the body of another AL leader Abdul Mazid was found at Charpata in Raipur upazila in the morning. Officer-in-charge of Raipur Police Station Manjurul Haque Akanda said local people found the body of Mazid in the area in the morning and informed police. Later, law enforcers recovered the body and sent it to hospital morgue for an autopsy. The reason behind the killing could not be known immediately. – UNB
