The victims include an Awami League (AL) activist, a Jubo Dal leader and a police informer.

Meherpur police said a gang of criminals stormed into the house of AL activist Abdus Salam, 29, at Hariadah village at about 12:00pm yesterday. They picked him up at gunpoint and slaughtered him at a nearby Hariadah water body.

AL blamed BNP for the killing, but police could not find out the reason behind the killing.

In Kushtia, body of a police informer was found near Gosai-danga intersection in Kumarkhali upazila yesterday night.

The body was identified as Bablu, 24, a rickshaw-puller and son of Banagali Mia. He remained missing since Sunday afternoon as unidentified criminals called him out of his Kalishankarpur house in the district town.

Police recovered the body and sent it to Kushtia General Hospital for autopsy. Police confirmed that Bablu worked as a police informer.

In another incident, Khoksa police recovered the body of Khoksa Jubo Dal joint secretary Yunus Ali from a shoal in the Padma yesterday night after eight days.

Police said Yunus was missing from Khoksa bazaar since November 8.

Being informed from an unidentified telephone caller, police recovered the body. Earlier, he was strangled, police said. But, the motive behind the murder is yet to be known.