Ex-UP chairman killed in Chattogram

Chattogram, Mar 1 (UNB): A former Union Parishad chairman was stabbed dead by some miscreants at Keuchia in Satkania upazila of Chattogram district early Monday.The deceased was identified as Abdul Haque, former chairman of Keuchia Union of the upaizla.
Zakaria Rahman Ziku, additional superintendent of Chattogram police, said a group of miscreants swooped on the house of Abdul Haque in the dead of night and stabbed him indiscriminately, leaving him dead on the spot.
Abdul Haque was alone at his home as his family members live in the city.
The miscreants entered the house of Abdul Haque and tied up his domestic help, said police quoting local people.
On information, police rushed to the spot and found him lying on his floor, said Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Satkania Police Station.
Police sent the body to local hospital morgue for autopsy. The body bore several injury marks on its head, said the OC.
The motive behind the killing could not be known immediately.