Outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML) slaughtered a fish trader as he failed to pay Tk 2 lakh as ransom demanded earlier over his taking lease of a waterbody in the area ignoring the PBCP-ML's warning.

PBCP men stormed into the house of the fish trader Imam Uddin at Dulalpur village in Mujibnagar upazila at about 11:00pm and slaughtered him in a nearby field, Meherpur police said. One Sumon claimed responsibility for the killing saying Imam was a PBCP-Janajuddho sympathiser.

In Jhenidah, criminals abducted a farmer from Mahisdanga village in Sailkupa upazila on Friday night and demanded ransom of Tk 2 lakh from his family. A gang in the guise of police called Sunil Kumar Mondol, 50, from sleep and took him to an unknown place at gunpoint, sources said.

Family sources said local union parishad chairman and members were negotiating with the captors while Sailkupa police said they have heard the incident, but no complaint was lodged in this regard.

Police could not rescue an Alamdanga Degree College student Asaduzzaman Liton, 24, abducted by a gang on Wednesday while he was returning home from local bazar at about 9:00pm. For his release the gang demanded his family to give Tk 4 lakh. They declined to inform police on receiving death threat to the boy.