10-07-2004, 02:39 AM
Another example of ethnic cleansing Of Hindus in BD<b>Bogra local daily editor beheaded</b>
Assailants killed Dipankar Chakrabarty, a senior journalist and vice-president of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), at Sanyalpara in Sherpur in the early hours yesterday.
Executive editor of local daily Durjoy Bangla, Dipankar, 59,was on his way home after work when the attackers swooped on him near his house and cut off his head with an axe at about 12:30am.
Neighbours heard him screaming and motorbikes speeding away. Shortly afterwards, Shamal Basak, a next-door neighbour, found Dipankar's decapitated body lying on the road. He immediately informed Dipankar's family of it.
Dipankar's eldest son Partha Sarthi Chakrabarty filed a case with the Sherpur Police Station yesterday.
Police said they had recovered a sack and a new towel used by the assailants from the scene.
Assailants killed Dipankar Chakrabarty, a senior journalist and vice-president of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), at Sanyalpara in Sherpur in the early hours yesterday.
Executive editor of local daily Durjoy Bangla, Dipankar, 59,was on his way home after work when the attackers swooped on him near his house and cut off his head with an axe at about 12:30am.
Neighbours heard him screaming and motorbikes speeding away. Shortly afterwards, Shamal Basak, a next-door neighbour, found Dipankar's decapitated body lying on the road. He immediately informed Dipankar's family of it.
Dipankar's eldest son Partha Sarthi Chakrabarty filed a case with the Sherpur Police Station yesterday.
Police said they had recovered a sack and a new towel used by the assailants from the scene.