Post-poll violence: Chairman, two others killed

Three more people including a newly elected chairman and a nonagenarian woman were killed on Sunday and Saturday night in post-poll violence in three districts as the maiden partisan elections to union parishads ended on June 4.
The latest killings took to 150 the number of people killed in electoral violence since February 11 when the Election Commission announced the schedule of the staggered elections.
New Age correspondent in Jaipurhat reported that newly-elected chairman of Bhadsha union of sadar upazila AK Azad, who sustained injuries in an attack by miscreants on June 4, died at a Popular Hospital in Dhaka on Sunday morning, said Jaipurhat sadar police station officer-in-charge Farid Hossain.
Earlier on June 4, a gang of miscreants attacked Azad near his house at Konchkuri village when he was returning home by a motorcycle from Durgadah Bazar at about 10:00pm.
The attackers hacked Azad and later shot at him, leaving him seriously injured.
Azad was rushed to Jaipurhat Sadar Adhunik Hospital from where he was shifted to Bogra Shahid Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital.
As his condition deteriorated, he was shifted to Dhaka.
In Habiganj, two people including a nonagenarian woman were killed in post-poll violence at Kharki village of Jagadishpur union under Madhabpur upazila on Saturday night.
The deceased were identified as Mirash Bibi, 90, and Faruk Mia, 32, of the village.
Police and local people said a clash took place between the supporters of winning member candidate Monayem Kha and defeated member candidate Abdul Hye on Friday.
Faruk Mia, a supporter of Monayem Kha, received serious injuries in that clash and he succumbed to his injuries at Habiganj Sadar Hospital on Saturday night.
As the news of Faruk’s death spread around his village, supporters of Monayem Kha allegedly attacked the house of Abdul Hye and vandalised the house.
As Mirash Bibi, sister of Abdul Hye, tried to resist the attackers, she received stab wounds and died on the spot.

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