BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is responsible for deaths of militant suspects including Golam Faizullah Fahim.

“Fahim was killed in a stage-managed drama. Police said Fahim was killed in crossfire, but actually it was not crossfire. He was just killed,” Khaleda told an iftar party at a Dhaka hotel, organised by Bangladesh Labour Party, a component in the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

On June 17, Fahim, who was on a 10-day remand in connection with the attack on Madaripur college teacher Ripon Chakraborty, was killed in a “gunfight between his associates and police” in Madaripur Sadar.