AL expat leader hacked to death
An expatriate Awami League leader was hacked to death by miscreants at Zindabazar in Sylhet city on Friday night.
The deceased was identified as SM Abdul Ahad, 40, son of Haji Nur Miah, a resident of Munshibazar Karimpur Medeni Mahal in Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar district. He was the organising secretary of Kuwait unit of Awami League.
He came to Sylhet on Thursday to attend a party programme.
Quoting witnesses, sub-inspector Faruk Ahmed, in-charge of MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital police camp, said a gang of miscreants attacked Ahad in front of City Market around10:30pm and hacked him indiscriminately, leaving him critically injured.
He was taken to the hospital where he succumbed to his injury around11:15pm, reports UNB.
Mosharraf Hossain, officer in-charge of Kotwali Police Station, said a team of police visited the spot and they are investigating the incident.
