Jubo League activist stabbed dead in Chuadanga

Unidentified assailants stabbed to death a Jubo League activist, the youth front of Awami League, in Sadar upazila of Chuadanga this evening.

Deceased Azizul Islam, 35, was an activist of the district unit Jubo League, our Kushtia correspondent reports quoting Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Chuadanga Sadar Police Station.
 
A group of people got down from a private car and intercepted Azizul in Dingedah area around 7:30pm and stabbed him indiscriminately, the OC said.

The assailants also shot Azizul and hurled a hand-made bomb at him, leaving him dead on the spot.

They also fired several blank shots and left the spot.

Critically injured Azizul was rushed to Chuadanga Sadar hospital where doctors pronounced him dead around 8.00pm.

Later, local Jubo League activists rushed to the spot and engaged in altercation following the death.

At one stage, two factions of Jubo League -- one led by the district unit Jubo League Convener Obaidur Rahman and another by Jubo League leader Naeem Joarder – clashed there, the OC said.

Azizul was a follower of Naeem.