News No.22/2016:
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
A JUMMA businessman
named Usha Pru Marma was hacked to death in Betbunia, Kaokhali Upazila on
Tuesday, March 15, according to sources.
His killer, Noor Alam,
37, who is also accused in the murder of a Bengali youth killed couple of
months ago in Lungi Para, fled the scene immediately after the murder and is
still at large.
On the day of incident,
Usha Pru Marma, 54, a resident of Lungi Para village, went to Noor Alam’s elder
brother to pay money for some trees he had contracted to buy earlier, his father
Pothoai Marma told chtnews.com.
“Noor Alam had told Usha
that he would not let him cut down the trees, which led to a heated exchange of
words between the two,” Pothoai Marma said citing eyewitnesses.
At one stage Noor Alam,
son of Md. Hashim Ali of Kadalpur in Rawzan, shouted ‘I am a killer’
brandishing a dao (machete) and hacked Usha to death, he
further said.
According to him, the
actual reason for the killing might be the fact that Usha was a witness in the
Bengali youth’s murder case against Noor Alam, who might have thought that
Usha’s deposition might lead to his conviction in the case.
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