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Two drivers of UNO Wahida detained
  • Staff Correspondent
  • 2020-09-08 03:09:32

Two more people have been taken into police custody for interrogation in connection with attack on Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Wahida Khanam and her father freedom fighter Omor Ali.

Police detained UNO’s two drivers-- Hafiz and Yasin-- on Monday night.
Earlier on Monday, the police took domestic helps of the UNO into their custody for interrogation but they released one of them later.

The law enforcers has so far arrested three people, including prime suspect Asadul Islam, and all of them were remanded for their alleged involvement in the attack.

Wahida Khanam, Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Ghoraghat, was seriously injured in an attack by miscreants at her home on the Upazila Parishad premises early Thursday.

Her father Omar Ali was also injured in the gruesome attack. They were taken to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital.

Later, the UNO was airlifted from Rangpur to Dhaka by a Bangladesh Air Force MI-171SH helicopter.

She was admitted to the National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital, Dhaka.

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