A local leader of Juba League, the youth front of the Bangladesh Awami League, died Saturday morning, hours after he was beaten allegedly by the activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islaim in the Chouddhurihat Bazar area under Companiganj upazila in Noakhali.
The victim, Abdul Kader Milon, 35, the general secretary of the Charhajari Union unit of Juba League, was beaten in front of Hafez Abdur Rahim Orphanage under the upazila at about 10:00pm on Friday.
He succumbed to his injuries on the way to a hospital in the capital鈥檚 Jatrabari area at about 9:15am on Saturday.
The victim鈥檚 wife Bibi Julekha claimed that Abdul, before his death, told names of about 25 individuals linked to the BNP and Jamaat who had attacked him.
The victim鈥檚 younger brother Abdur Rakib said that he and Abdul went to visit their ailing brother-in-law in the neighbouring Daganbhuiyan upazila in Feni district Friday evening.
He alleged that, at about 9:00pm, while returning home, several people on motorcycles began following them when their auto-rickshaw reached the Chouddhurihat Bazar area鈥檚 Chuanir Tek in Companiganj.
At one point, the attackers forcibly took Abdul in front of the orphanage and began to beat him with iron objects, Rakib said.
He said that although police later arrived at the scene, they failed to rescue him.
The members of the Bangladesh Army later arrived there, rescued him and took him to Companiganj Health Complex for treatment.
Companyganj Police Station officer-in-charge Gazi Muhammad Fouzul Azim said that the victim died on the way to Dhaka while being taken there for advanced treatment.
The member secretary of Companiganj upazila unit of BNP, Mahmudur Rahman Ripon, and Companiganj upazila Jamaat secretary Maulana Mizanur Rahman denied their parties鈥� involvement in the incident.
