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Police have arrested two people, including a woman, over the killing of a 35-year-old man in Chattogram’s Bakalia area in an alleged dispute over drug-related enmity and local dominance.
The victim, identified as Abdur Sobhan, was hacked to death in front of his house near Taktarpul on Wednesday night (November 12), around midnight.
According to police, members of the Shawkat group allegedly attacked Sobhan with sharp weapons, repeatedly stabbing him over previous enmity linked to drugs and a dispute over control of the neighbourhood.
His relatives rushed him to Chattogram Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
Police later arrested Amir Hossain alias Bullet, 23, and Momina Begum, 45, in connection with the killing.
In a joint operation, Bakalia police and the Special Response Battalion (SRB) also recovered a locally made light gun (LG), a machete and a steel-tipped knife from the scene.
Police said efforts were underway to arrest others involved in the killing, while legal proceedings were in progress.
According to police records, 19 cases involving murder, drugs, assault and arms-related offences against Sobhan were pending trial in court.