Dhaka, Aug 25 – Chairman of a Union Parishad in Kalia Upazila Narail district was gunned down by miscreants at his Gazirhat farmhouse in Dighalia Upazila of Khulna district early Friday.The miscreants fired gunshots at Nahid Hossian Mollah, 50, chairman of Hamidpur Union Parishad, around 4:00am while he was asleep at his home, leaving him critically injured, said officer-in-charge of Kalia Police Station Md Shamsher quoting his family members.
Miscreants fired shots on him through the window on the first-floor room of his two-storey building.
Hearing the gunshots, family members rushed in and took Nahid to Khulna Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Though Nahid Hossain was a UP chairman in Narail he had a farmhouse at Gazirhat in neighbouring Khulna district. – UNB
