A Rangpur court had previously sentenced Masud Rana, Isahaq, Liton Mia and Sakhawat to death over the murder of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi last year. Militants hacked Rahmat Ali, 60, the caretaker of the shrine at Choitar intersection in Kawnia Upazila’s Modhupur, and slit his throat on his way home on Nov 10, 2015. Suspects and JMB members Nazrul Islam aka Bike Nazrul aka Bike Hassan, 26, and Saddam Hossain aka Rahul, 21, were killed in a shootout on Jan 5, 2016 in the Beribadh area of Dhaka’s Mohammadpur. He was the caretaker of the shrine of his father Abdus Sattar, near his home. “He always organised an event at the shrine on Nov 21 each year to commemorate his father’s death,” Bhowmik said.

Source: bd News24 March 18, 2018 07:07 UTC