| It was Thursday and warm in Rangpur. My partner and I were working the informant office out of the Gangachara upazila precinct... |
[Bangla Daily Star] Unknown criminals slaughtered two sources of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Gangachara upazila of Rangpur in the early hours of Thursday.
| Poor Mahmoud the Weasel and his nephew Mahmudullah Bilal. They had a long and prosperous run, put the boys through public schools and gave the girls piano lessons, but now it's caught up with them. |
Locals put barricades on the Rangpur-Dinajpur highway for an hour beginning from at about 12noon, protesting the killings, report our Rangpur correspondent.
Abdus Salam and Mominul Islam were Rab sources, said Altaf Hossain, officer-in-charge of Rangpur Kotwali Police Station.
They came out of their houses at Uttam Hazir Hat in the upazila around 9:00pm Wednesday and since then they remained missing, the OC said.
Locals informed police after finding the bodies of Salam and Mominul lying in a pool of blood beside the highway around 10:00am Thursday, he added.
| Missing no longer. Let us pause for a moment in respect, for they did much to reduce the criminality plaguing Bangladeshi society. May the miscreants who did it soon have their well-deserved encounter with the local branch of the Rab. |
The reason behind the killings was not known immediately.
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