A forty-six-year-old grocer was brutally hacked to death in Mithapukur sub-district, Rangpur, following a long-running land dispute with neighbours. The victim, Mijanur Rahman, was ambushed and killed while returning home with his mother shortly after lodging a formal general diary entry with the police to report death threats.
The fatal attack occurred at around 1:00 AM on Tuesday in Chithli Paschimpara village, under the Boro Hazratpur Union. Mijanur, son of the late Abdul Mannan, ran a local grocery shop in the nearby Porarhat market. According to family members and local residents, Mijanur had been embroiled in a bitter, protracted legal dispute over land ownership with a neighbouring family led by Abdul Kafi Munshi.
Tensions escalated dramatically on Tuesday afternoon when individuals associated with the opposing faction struck Mijanur’s leg with a motorcycle while he sat outside his shop. An altercation ensued when Mijanur protested against the deliberate collision, prompting the perpetrators to issue explicit death threats.
Fearing for his safety, Mijanur accompanied his mother, Azuba Begum, to Mithapukur Police Station to file an official report documenting the intimidation. The attack took place as the pair travelled home by rickshaw-van later that night. As they approached Porarhat market, an armed gang intercepted their vehicle.
Witnesses and family members alleged that a group of ten to twelve men—including Nurnabi, Nur Mohammad, Masud, Mostafizar, Kalam, and Mahfuzar—assaulted Mijanur with sticks, cleavers, and sharp weapons. The assailants forcibly dragged him from the rickshaw-van, beat him with wooden rods, and inflicted multiple severe sharp-force wounds. His mother begged the attackers for mercy, but the group brushed her aside and continued the assault, fleeing the scene only after Mijanur succumbed to massive hemorrhage.
Police officers arrived at the scene shortly after receiving reports of the incident, recovered the body, and sent it to Rangpur Medical College Hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination. On Wednesday, Azuba Begum filed a murder case at Mithapukur Police Station naming ten individuals alongside seven to eight unidentified suspects. Law enforcement authorities confirmed that investigation teams are conducting operations to apprehend the suspects.
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