Youth's Body Recovered From Betel Garden in East Nandanpur, Lakshmipur Sadar, With Sharp-Weapon Wound to the Throat

Lakshmipur: A youth named Zakir Hossain Jewel has been killed with a sharp-weapon blow to the throat in Lakshmipur. He is alleged to have been involved in the local 'drug trade', and police suspect the killing may have stemmed from a dispute over that trade.

Police recovered his body at around 1am on Sunday night (October 25) from a betel garden in the Deputy Bari area of East Nandanpur village in Dakshin Hamchadi Union of Sadar upazila. He is reported to have been killed at around 11pm before the body was left in the garden by unknown attackers.

Jewel, of the East Nandanpur area, was the son of Tofayel Ahmed. He faced several cases in arms and drugs incidents.

Police and local people said unknown attackers killed Jewel with a sharp weapon to the throat and left the body in the garden; local people saw it and informed police. He faced an allegation of selling yaba in the area, and it is suspected he was killed over the drug trade.

Lakshmipur Sadar Model police station officer-in-charge Wahid Parvez said Jewel had got bail in a drugs case a few days earlier and the killing is suspected to have happened over a drugs dispute. The body was sent to the Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy, and he said those involved would be identified through investigation and legal action taken.