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UP chairman shot dead in Narail

A group of unidentified miscreants shot a union parishad chairman to death at his residence in Gazirhaat area under Kalia upazila of the district early hours of Friday.Nahid Hossain Mollah, 51, was the chairman of Hamidpur Union Parishad in the upazila.Officer in-Charge (OC) of Kalia Police Station Sheikh Samsher Ali said the miscreants shot Nahid around 4am, when he was asleep on the first floor of his residence in Gazirhaat area, reports BSS.Later, he was taken to Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) where on-duty doctors declared him dead, the OC said.