6 election personnel shot dead in Rangamati

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RANGAMATI, March 18, 2019 (BSS) – A gang of unidentified criminals shot
six people, including two polling officers and four Ansar-VDP members, to
death and injured many others in Bagaichhari upazila of Rangamati here this
evening.

The polling offices and members of the law enforcement agencies came under
attack in Noykilo area of Bagaichhari upazila when they were returning to the
upazila headquarters after conducting vote of upazila parishads elections at
a remote polling centre, Police Super of Rangamati Alamgir Kabir said.

Kabir said many people sustained injuries in the attack and they were
being taken to nearby hospitals, he said while talking BSS around 8:30 pm.

He immediately could not mention the names of deceased and injured persons
saying the deceased include two polling officers and four ansar-VDP members.