BNP leader hacked to death at tea stall in Bagerhat

A BNP leader has been killed in Bagerhat town after assailants arrived on motorcycles and hacked him while he was sitting at a tea stall, police say. The incident occurred around 6:30pm on Friday at the three-road intersection in Uttar Harikhali, Bagerhat Sadar Model Police Station chief Md Mahmud-ul-Hasan said. The victim, ASM Hayat Uddin, 43, was a former member of the town BNP committee. He had recently contested for the post of organising secretary at the party’s biannual council but lost. Before that, he had been involved with local units of the BNP’s student and youth wings. Police have visited the scene following the killing. Officers have claimed the murder may be linked to a previous dispute, but they...