Kamalapur railway staff killed

Unidentified miscreants made away with over Tk 17 lakh from the cash of Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital killing one of its staffs Saturday morning.Deceased Mohammad Israfil Hossain, 59, was an assistant of booking section at the railway station, Abdul Majid, officer-in-charge of Dhaka Railway Police Station, told The Daily Star.Hossain, who was hailed from Manikganj, was used to work at the railway on contractual basis.He was serving as the in-charge of cash section in the last night, said Khairul Bashir, station manger of Kamalapur Railway Station.Railway police recovered the body with its hands and legs tied with adhesive tape and neck with a towel from the store room of the railway station around 6:00am, said the OC.Police suspected that Ismail was strangled to death following an internal feud with his colleagues as the store room, where the body found, is restricted for outsiders.Miscreants took Tk 17 lakh and 18 thousand from the railway cash box after killing Hossain between 10:00pm Friday and 6:00am Saturday, said Rafiqul Islam, second officer of the police station.After the killing, Railway Minister Mujibul Haque visited the spot and formed a three-member probe committee to investigate into the incident.The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital morgue for autopsy, said Md Zahidul Islam, an assistant sub-inspector of Dhaka Railway Police Station.The incident however did not have an effect on the people who flocked to the station for tickets ahead of the biggest religious festival of Hindus, Durga Puja, and Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims, reports private television channel Somoy TV.