Prosecutor of Jhalakathi judges killing case shot dead

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Unknown assailants last night shot dead the public prosecutor (PP) of Jhalakathi District Judge’s Court and chief counsel of the case filed against Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants for killing two Jhalakathi judges.

The gunmen shot in the head of PP Advocate Hyder Hossain at 8:30pm soon after he came out of a mosque in the district town after Esha prayers.

The attackers could not be identified as of 10:00pm yesterday.

Hyder had recently said at different meetings that some people identifying themselves as JMB members were threatening him over telephone following the execution of the six top JMB militants.

Police had been apprehending JMB retaliation since all legal bars were removed for the execution of the six JMB leaders, including its chief Abdur Rahman and his second-in-command Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai. The six militants were executed at different jails on March 29.

Devotees said they came out of the mosque on Gorosthan Road in Jhalakathi town hearing a gunshot and found Hyder lying on a pool of blood near an out-of-order light post on the road.

They said Hyder came out of the mosque a little earlier.

The police and family members reached the scene soon and rushed Hyder to Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital where attending doctors declared him dead.

The bullet hit Hyder’s forehead and went out through the back of his head.

Soon after the incident members of the Rapid Action Battalion, army and police cordoned off the spot and launched a massive search in the area. The law enforcers were neither allowing anyone to enter the area nor going out of it.

Additional Superintendent of Police in Jhalakathi Enamul Haque told The Daily Star that they are yet to determine the identity of the killers.

Senior assistant judges Jagannath Pandey and Sohel Ahmed were killed in a suicide bomb attack at Purba Chadkati in Jhalakathi town on November 14, 2005 in the wake of a series of violent militant attacks across the country.

A Barisal court on May 29 last year sentenced to death JMB chief Abdur Rahman, Bangla Bhai and five other militants and acquitted one in the sensational case.

Hyder Hossain was a former amir of the district Jamaat-e-Islami and contested in the 1991 parliamentary election from Jhalakathi sadar with Jamaat ticket.

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