SEVEN persons have been killed in separate incidents in seven districts.
   The Sirajganj correspondent of New Age reports that a housewife was killed allegedly by her husband on Tuesday night over a family feud.
   The police suspected Shahjamal Hossain of village Ekdala at Ratankandi union in the district headquarters beat his wife, Sazeda Begum, 35, to death and later dumped the body in an adjacent field.
   The police recovered the body and sent it to the Sirajganj General Hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination.
   A case was filed. Shahjamal went into hiding after the incident.
   The Chapainawabganj correspondent said a housewife, Parul Khatun, 20, of Harispur in the district headquarters was killed allegedly by her husband early Wednesday.
   Quoting locals, the police said the deceased’s husband Sentu killed her by slitting her on throat over family feud at about 1:30am.
   The police recovered the body and sent it Chapainawabganj General Hospital morgue.
   Sentu went into hiding after the killing.
   The Jessore correspondent a drug peddler was stabbed to death allegedly by his fellow on Sadipur border in Jessore on Tuesday.
   The deceased was Shahjahan, 45, inhabitant of the area.
   The police said he died on the spot when another drug peddler, Mohammad Alam, hit him with a sharp weapon at about 6:30pm over the sharing of money which they had earned by selling heroin.
   The police recovered the body from the spot and sent it to hospital morgue.
   Alam fled to India where the BSF arrested him. But he was yet to hand over Bangladesh till Thursday afternoon.
   The Kurigram correspondent reports that the decomposed body of one Nazrul Islam, 50, was found at Kaliganj Char under Ulipur upazila in Kurigram on Wednesday.
   The police said some unidentified persons called upon Nazrul Islam of village Charsetaijhar at Mogolbacha union from his house on Thursday. He remained missing since then.
   Local people found the decomposed body at about 10:00am Wednesday. There were several marks of injuries in the body.
   The police said he might have been killed over previous enmity.
   A case was filed.
   The United News of Bangladesh adds: In Bagerhat, a man was hacked to death allegedly by his wife at village Bhaijura under Morrelganj upazila Wednesday afternoon.
   The dead was Abdul Gani Sheikh, 40, a rickshaw-van puller and inhabitant of the village.
   The police said Gani slapped his wife Majeda Begum alias Kushi, 28, as she refused to give him food at about 3:00pm. Angry Majeda soon returned the attack on her by hacking Gani with a sharp weapon, killing him on the spot.
   The police went to the spot but could not arrest Majeda.
   A case was filed with the Morrelganj police.
   In Natore, criminals shot dead an unidentified young man near Ninguine Bridge under Singra upazila early Wednesday.
   The police said local people found the bullet-hit body of the young man in the morning and informed them.
   Later, the police recovered the body and sent it to hospital morgue.
   The police suspected that the criminals abducted him from elsewhere following a previous enmity and shot him dead.
   In Narail, a farmer irrigating the paddy field was hacked to death by unknown assailants at village Pasuria under Lohagara upazila Tuesday night.
   Abdus Sattar Sheikh, 50, died on the spot.
   As he failed to return home, his brother Inder Sheikh came to the paddy field in search of his brother.
   In his absence from home the killers set fire on the dwelling house of Inder Sheikh, the police said.
   The police suspected previous enmity might lead to the murder. A case was filed but none was arrested till Wednesday evening.

ROBBER looted valuables worth Tk 8 lakh from five houses in Shariatpur and Bogra on Tuesday.
   Bandits looted valuables worth Tk 4 lakh from four houses under Shajahanpur upazila of the district on Tuesday night.
   The police said a gang of 15/20 robbers swooped on the house of Abdur Razzaque at village Partekur at dead of night and took away Tk 60,000 in cash, some 10 tolas of gold ornaments and other valuables after tying up the residents.
   The gang also swooped on three other houses at neighbouring village Kharna Fakirpara on the same night and looted Tk 42,000 in cash, seven tolas of gold and other valuables.
   In Shariatpur, armed robbers looted cash and other valuables from the house of an army man at village Kashabhog in the district headquarters early Tuesday injuring three persons, including the house owner critically.
   The gang numbering 15/20 stormed into the house of soldier Abu Jafar Bepari at about 1:30am and looted Tk 15,000 in cash, some 10 tolas of gold ornaments and other valuables worth about Tk 3.80 lakh at gunpoint.
   The criminals at one stage hacked Abu Jafar, his wife Parvin Akter, 35, and niece Nasima, 18, indiscriminately when they tried to resist them. Later, the bandits fled away with the booty.

A RAJBARI court on Wednesday sentenced 12 persons to 14 years’ rigorous imprisonment each in a robbery case.
   The convicts were Lalon Halder, Tanzir alias Nayan, Swapan alias Harun-ur-Rashid, Janu, Shamim, Masum, Kochi alias Madhu, Alam Joyenuddin, Murad, Manik, Biplob and Shahin.
   Of them, Alam Joyenuddin, Murad, Manik, Biplob and Shahin were tried in their absence.
   The court also fined the convicts Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer one year more in jail.
   The prosecution said a gang of robbers looted valuables worth Tk 4 lakh from the passengers of a ferry on December 10, 2000.

THE Rapid Action Battalion recovered 21 bombs at Bhabanipur of Islampur union in the Chapainawabganj district headquarters early Wednesday.
   Tipped off, members of the elite force recovered the bombs behind the house of one Ismail Hossain at about 3:45am.
   The bombs were deposited with the Chapainawabganj sadar police station.

THE police seized a truck loaded with 240 sacks of urea on Jhenaidah–Chuadanga road on Tuesday.
   Tipped off, the police chased the truck but the driver fled the scene leaving the vehicle near an under-construction jail, on the outskirts of the district town.
   Later, they recovered 240 sacks of urea from the truck. None was arrested in this connection.

A FIRE burned down jute worth about Tk 16 lakh at Gorari Bazar under Atgharia upazila of Pabna on Tuesday night.
   The jute warehouse owned by Golzar Hossain caught fire at about 9:00pm. Sunil Kumar Shaha, a jute trader, had stocked over two thousand maunds of jute renting the warehouse this year. But the fire damaged the jute.
   The fire-fighters managed to control the fire after four hours of effort. The reason of fire could not be ascertained.

MEMBERS of the Bangladesh Rifles recovered 192 bottles of Phensidyl syrup (codeine) at Bokchar union in the Chapainawabganj district headquarters on Tuesday night.
   BDR officials said they had recovered the contraband drugs when the smugglers were smuggling them from India into the country. But the smugglers managed to flee away sensing the presence of law enforcers.