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A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at Patibila village of Chougachha upazila on Monday afternoon after being failed to pay loan to NGOs. The deceased was identified as Lipi Begum, 32, wife of Iqbal Hossain. Family sources said Lipi took Tk 0.30 million (Tk 3 lakh) as loan from different NGOs. The NGO workers created pressure on her and they also insulted her for not paying the money, She committed suicide by hanging herself from beam of the house in the afternoon as she could not bear the insult of the NGO workers, said Jasim Uddin, assistant sub-inspector of Chougaccha Police Station. On information, police recovered the body in the evening and sent it to Jessore General Hospital; according to UNB.....

Published at: 2017-08-22 05:00:05

An alleged criminal was killed in a reported gunfight with detectives in Jurain graveyard area of Dhaka city early Tuesday. The deceased, aged around 30, could not be identified immediately. Mahbubul Haque, sub-inspector of Shyampur Police Station, said that on secret information a team of Detective Branch of police conducted a drive in the area around 2:00am. Sensing the presence of law enforcers, the criminal opened fire on them, prompting them to retaliate, triggering the gunfight. Later, the bullet-hit criminal was rescued from the spot, reports UNB. The injured was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead around 4:00am, added the SI.....

Published at: 2017-08-22 05:00:05

Spanish police on Monday shot dead an Islamist militant who killed 13 people with a van in Barcelona last week, ending a five-day manhunt for the perpetrator of Spain's deadliest attack in over a decade. Police said they tracked 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub to a rural area near Barcelona and shot him after he held up what looked like an explosives belt and shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is the Greatest). The bomb squad used a robot to approach his body. Abouyaaqoub had been on the run since Thursday evening, after he drove at high speed into throngs of strollers along Barcelona's most famous avenue, Las Ramblas. After fleeing the scene, he hijacked a car and fatally stabbed its driver. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, which police believe was planned by a dozen accomplices, including a brother and two first cousins of the Moroccan-born Abouyaaqoub. Abouyaaqoub had been the only one of 12 accomplices still at large. His mother, Hannou Ghanimi, had appealed for him to surrender, saying she would rather see him in jail than dead. Of the other 11 in the militant cell, five were shot dead by police hours after the van attack, two were killed and one injured the day before in a blast in a house where they were apparently making explosives, and three were arrested elsewhere. "Shortly before 5pm, the police shot down Younes Abouyaaqoub, the driver of the van in the attack that killed 14 people in Barcelona," Carles Puigdemont, head of the Catalonia regional government, told a news conference. He said the bomb belt turned out to be a fake one. An employee at a petrol station, along an empty stretch of road between the towns of Subirats and Sant Sadurni d'Anoi, spotted a man resembling Abouyaaqoub and called the police. Sant Sadurni Mayor Maria Rosell said all police forces in Catalonia converged on the town. Police found Abouyaaqoub hiding in vineyards and shot him dead a kilometre down the road next to a sewage treatment plant. Cristiano Pecchi, an Italian tourist, first heard gunfire at around 4pm (1400 GMT) Shortly afterwards, he said, up to 30 police cars arrived along with helicopters and ambulances. "I was just waiting for my car to be fixed and suddenly we heard gunfire and all hell was let loose," he said. The scene unfolded 40 km (25 miles) from the spot, close to the FC Barcelona soccer stadium on the outskirts of the city, where police said Abouyaaqoub had seized the hijacked car. Police said Abouyaaqoub had first fled Las Ramblas on foot amid the chaos of the attack, then commandeered the car, stabbing the driver, 34-year-old Pau Perez, to death before smashing his way through a police checkpoint and ditching the car in the nearby town of Sant Just Desvern. The four people arrested so far in connection with the attacks are three Moroccans and a citizen of Spain's North African enclave of Melilla. They were taken on Monday to the high court in Madrid, which has jurisdiction over terrorism matters. Abouyaaqoub lived in Ripoll, a town in the Pyrenees mountains north of Barcelona close to the French border. ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS Islamic State also claimed responsibility for a separate deadly assault, hours after the van attack, in the coastal resort town of Cambrils, south of Barcelona. In Cambrils, a car rammed into passersby and its occupants got out and tried to stab people. The five assailants were shot dead by police, while a Spanish woman died in the attack. In the roughly seven hours of violence that followed the van's entry into the central promenade of Las Ramblas on Thursday afternoon, attackers killed 15 people: 13 on Las Ramblas, the Cambrils victim, and the man in the hijacked car. Of the 120 injured on Las Ramblas, eight remain in a critical condition in hospital. It was the deadliest attack in Spain since March 2004, when so-called Islamists planted bombs on commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people, and the latest in a series of vehicular assaults on civilians in European cities claimed by Islamic State. Two of the suspected plotters in Barcelona, including an imam thought by police to have helped radicalise his young conspirators, were killed on Wednesday night in what is believed to have been an accidental explosion. About 120 butane gas cylinders were found at the scene of the blast, a house in the town of Alcanar, south of Barcelona. Police believe the pair were preparing a much larger attack with explosives, but the blast prompted their accomplices to adopt a new, less elaborate plan. Spanish police said the international investigation was still open and have sought information on a visit the imam, Abdelbaki Es Satty, made to Belgium last year, said Thierry Werts, spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor's office. Hans Bonte, mayor of the Belgian town of Vilvoorde, near Brussels, told VRT television at the weekend the imam had been there looking for work. Belgium has suffered several Islamist attacks and Vilvoorde has been a centre of Islamic radicalism. The van driver, Abouyaaqoub, began showing more religiously conservative behavior over the past year, said relatives in his native Morocco. He refused to shake hands with women during a visit to his birthplace in March, they said. Abouyaaqoub's brother El Houssaine and first cousins Mohamed and Omar Hychami were among those killed by police in Cambrils. They were all originally from the small Moroccan town of Mrirt.....

Published at: 2017-08-22 05:00:05

An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 hit the tourist-packed Italian island of Ischia, off the coast of Naples, on Monday night, killing at least one person and injuring some 25 others as buildings collapsed, officials said. Residents and tourists on the island ran out on to the streets from homes and hotels. Television images showed that about six buildings in the town of Casamicciola as well as a church collapsed in the quake, which hit at 8:57pm (1857 GMT). Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV) put the magnitude at 4.0 but both the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the European quake agency, EMSC, estimated the magnitude at 4.3. Local Civil Protection Department official Giovanni Vittozzi said one woman was killed when she was hit by falling masonry from a church and that officials were checking reports of another victim. Helicopters and a ferry boat were bringing in more rescue workers from the mainland. Roberto Allocca, a doctor from a local hospital, told Sky TG24 television that about 25 people had been treated for minor injuries. Most of the hospital had been evacuated and the injured were treated outside. Some civil protection squads were already on the island because of brushfires. The television reports said the buildings that collapsed appeared to have been inhabited and about 10 people were still unaccounted for. The quake hit a few days before the first anniversary of a major quake that killed nearly 300 people in central Italy, most of them in the town of Amatrice.....

Published at: 2017-08-22 05:00:05

KUSHTIA, Aug 20 (BSS): A senior Awami League (AL) leader said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is talking nonsense to hide their misdeeds. AL joint general secretary Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif made the comments while talking to reporters before joining a discussion organised by Islamic University (IU) in the city, marking the National Mourning Day and the 42nd Martyrdom Anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.  "Ziaur Rahman became president of Bangladesh by grabbing power illegally and created a party after killing Father of the Nation Bangabandhu in 1975...His party is illegal as Ziaur Rahman has been identified as a usurper. Now his (Zia's) party secretary general Alamgir is talking nonsense to hide their misdeeds," said Hanif IU vice-chancellor Dr Harun-or Rashid, Pro vice-chancellor Dr Shahinur Rahman, Treasurer Dr Selim Toha, Abdul Hai, MP, and local AL leaders, among others, were present in the programme. Hanif urged all to know about the history of Bangladesh and Bangabandhu.....

Published at: 2017-08-21 05:00:05