Narail UP chairman hacked, shot dead

Deceased Latifur Rahman was Dighalia UP chairman.

Local sources said armed miscreants shot and hacked Latifur indiscriminately on upazila parishad premises around 11:45am, leaving him critically injured.

He was rushed to Lohagara Upazila Health Complex where the on-duty doctors declared him dead.

A tense situation has been prevailing in the area after the incident.

Lohagara Police Station OC Shafiqul Islam said additional police have been deployed in the area to fend off any violence.

Police hunt is on to arrest the killers, the OC said.

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