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Vol. 5 Num 790 Wed. August 16, 2006  
   
Metropolitan


Death threat to Sheikh Selim


Awami League (AL) leader Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim received a death threat via a text message on his mobile phone on Sunday night.

The SMS or the text message reads: "If you come to Tungipara marking the August 15, you will be shot dead. Remember us. Your father."

Talking to The Daily Star, Selim, a presidium member of AL and also a cousin of AL President Sheikh Hasina, said he filed a general diary with Tungipara Police Station in this connection yesterday.