Rangunia: Some unidentified miscreants equipped with firearms gunned down a farmer and injured three others in a hilly area of Sarafvhata union under Rangunia upazila of the district in the early morning today.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, the deceased was Awai Mong Marma, 37, son of Aongshee Pru Marma of Marma Palli at Barakhola Para of the upazila. The incident occurred when the armed terrorists shot the farmers as they were guarding a lemon-producing farm to protect the agro-product from theft, which has been frequent in the remote and solitary hilly areas recently.
The wounded, who sustained bullet injuries, were identified as Mongray Marma, 35, son of Mongsa Jai Marma, Hlasla Thui Marma, 25, son of Chai Peu Marma, and Usaimong Marma, 17, son of Shaw Ching Marma. All of them hailed from the same locality of the upazila.
The miscreants intruded on their farm and shot them while they were guarding it like any other night, leaving Awai Mong Marma dead on the spot and injuring three others, said ATM Shifatul Majdar, officer-in-charge (OC) of South Rangunia thana. The wounded were sent to Chattogram Medical College and Hospital (CMCH), and the body was kept at its morgue, he said.
No arrests have been made in connection with the incident, the OC added. Master Ananto Chowdhury, a local resident, mentioned that all the victims of the incident are farmers who sustain their families by farming and selling lemons.