Narsinghdi, Nov 2 — Narsinghdi mayor Lokman Hossain has been buried at the municipality graveyard.
He was buried after two namaj-e-janaza, one at Moslehuddin Bhuyian Stadium after Asr prayers and another at municipality Eidgah on Wednesday.
A number of central leaders of Awami League, including joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, joined the funeral prayers at the stadium along with people from several upazilas of Narsinghdi.
Lokman, the general secretary of Narsinghdi town Awami League, was shot dead in the town by masked miscreants on Tuesday night.
People of Narsingdi blocked the Dhaka-Sylhet highway and the railway linking Dhaka with Sylhet and Chittagong for hours. They also set fire on six bogeys of a Dhaka-Kishoreganj passenger train.
Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of ruling Awami League, is enforcing a 72-hour general strike in Narsinghdi to protest against the murder.
Shops and business organisations were shut on Wednesday morning. Activists of ruling Awami League and associate organisations took out processions demanding arrest and punishment of the assailants.
The organisers, however, said the first day's protest would not be that tight to facilitate the burial.
Additional police forces have been deployed in the area to control the situation. Deputy inspector general (DIG) of police's Dhaka range M H Nuruzzaman, Rapid Action Battalion-11 additional DIG Mostofa Kamal reached Narsinghdi overnight to keep a close watch on the situation.
Lokman Hossain was the president of Bangladesh Textile Mill Owners Association and Bangladesh Mayor Association. He was twice awarded the gold medal for best mayor.
He left behind two children, a daughter and a son.
District Awami League will observe a three-day mourning. On Friday religious observations will be held for Lokman and a protest rally will follow in the evening.
BNP Narsinghdi unit chief and central education secretary Khairul Kabir Khokon was arrested from Dhaka early on Wednesday, hours after Lokman's death.
FROM:bdnews24.com
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