25 killed in Sudan plane crash

A military base at the international airport in Juba, South Sudan. Photo: AFP

AFP, Sudan

At least 25 people were killed when a plane crash-landed shortly after taking off from 's capital , an AFP reporter said.
Police were pulling the bodies of men, women and children out of the wreckage of the cargo plane, which crashed into a small farming community on a small island in the White Nile river, close to airport, the reporter said, who counted at least 25 dead.
UN-backed radio said as many as 40 people were feared dead, adding that airport officials had told them only three passengers had survived.

Murdering parents: Oishee’s verdict Nov 12

Star Online Report

A Dhaka court will deliver its verdict in a case filed against Oishee Rahman for killing her parents – Mahfuzur Rahman, an inspector of police’s special branch, and Swapna Rahman – in 2013.
Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 Judge Md Sayeed Ahmed passed the order in presence of Oishee and her two friends Asaduzzaman Johnny and Mizanur Rahman Roni.
The bodies of Mahfuzur and his wife were recovered at their Chamelibagh residence in Dhaka on August 16, 2013.
Detectives pressed charges against her, Johnny, Roni and domestic help Khadiza Akter Sumi in the case.
According to the charge sheets, Oishee alone killed her parents, Jony instigated the murders and Rony gave her shelter after the incident. Sumi has been accused of assisting Oishee in concealing the bodies.
The charge sheet also said the couple had been given seven sedatives mixed in tea or coffee before they were killed.
Trial against the child domestic help, Sumi, 11, now on bail, is pending with the First Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka, a juvenile court.

‘I feel insecure, like I felt in 1971’

Slain publisher Dipan’s father says

“I feel nervous and insecure,” Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq says four days into the killing of his son Dipan. Star file photo

Star Online Report

Four days into the murder of publisher Dipan, his father Prof Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq today said he feels insecure as he had felt during the nine months of Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War.
“I feel nervous and insecure,” Prof Huq told reporters at his Paribagh residence in the capital this afternoon.
Responding a question that whether he had received any threat, he said: “I won’t say anything [regarding this].”
“I have never felt so much insecurity since our independence,” said the former professor of Dhaka University.
Faisal Arefin Dipan, owner of Jagriti Prokashani, was found stabbed dead at his office in Aziz Market on Saturday hours after assailants stabbed Ahmedur Rashid Tutul, publisher of Shuddhoswar, and bloggers Ranadipam Basu and Tareque Rahim at Lalmatia in Dhaka.