Unidentified gunmen in Rangamati have killed a chairman candidate of the Awami League for the upcoming Union Parishad (UP) polls late on Saturday, hours after he filed his nomination to the election officials.
Fifty-six-year-old Nethoyai Marma, who got the ruling party’s ticket for the elections to Chitmaram Union of Kaptai upazila, was gunned down at his home in Aga Para, said police.
“Some 10 to 12 people barged into his home and fired at him,” said OC Iqbal Bahar Chowdhury of the local Chandraghona police station.
He died on the spot, said the police officer before adding that the body has been sent to the Rangamati General Hospital for autopsy.
Nethoyai served as the president of the Awami League’s Chitmaram unit.
Quoting family members, Kaptai Upazila Awami League chief said the gunmen, who were wearing green vests, knocked down the door of the house around midnight.
Nethoyai had been staying at a rest house near the Chitmaram Bazar for the last two years due to security reasons. He had only returned home on Saturday evening after filing his nomination.
The local administration has deployed additional security forces in the area following the killing.
