Police yesterday arrested a schoolboy on suspicion of his involvement with Rifat Sharif killing.

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At least 20 people took part in the murder of Rifat Sharif in Barguna on June 26, investigators said based on information gleaned from two accused arrested recently.

The prime accused in the Rifat murder case was killed in a “gunfight” between his accomplices and police in Barguna early yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested four more people, including two accused, in connection with the killing of Barguna’s Shah Newaj Rifat Sharif while the three key accused are still at large.

Police have identified 13 people involved in the killing of Rifat Sharif in broad daylight in Barguna on Wednesday and issued red alert at all international airports, and land and river ports across the country to prevent them from fleeing.

Four youths who were detained from Barishal city last night for their suspected involvement in the gruesome killing of Barguna youth Rifat Sharif are released from police custody.

Terming the murder of Barguna’s Rifat Sharif in broad daylight saddening, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal warns that none of those involved in the murder will be spared.

A total of seven injury marks including three gashes were found on the body of Rifat Sharif, who was brutally killed in front of his wife in the broad daylight yesterday, the autopsy report reveales.

The High Court directs the government to issue a red alert so that the killers of Rifat Sharif in Barguna cannot leave the country crossing the border.

“The goons killed my husband right in front of me. I tried a lot to save him, but I failed. Not a single person came forward to help us when the attack took place,” Ayesha Siddiqua, wife of the slain youth in Barguna, tells journalists as she weeps remembering the horrific incident.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the law enforcement agencies to arrest the killers of Rifat Sharif, who was hacked to death in Barguna on Wednesday.

Expressing grave shock over the brutal killing Rifat Sharif in Barguna, High Court observes that the way Rifat was killed and the role of bystanders are the pictures of social degradation.