Information About Incident 41206-78921-195033 in Moulvibazar Bangladesh

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The dead bodies were recovered on December 1 following a confessional statement of Rokunuzzaman alias Manik, a top cadre of outlawed PBCP arrested on November 30.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Rokunuzzaman
• Matched District: Moulvibazar
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: PBCP
• Subject: a top cadre of outlawed

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) cadres kidnapped three persons and held them for ransom and having failed to realise the money they killed them and buried the bodies in a graveyard in Taragunia graveyard under Daulatpur sub-district in Kushtia District, reports Daily Star. The dead were identified as Mehedi Hasan Sohag, a third year student of Kushtia Islamia College, Jahangir Hossain, an employee of KARITAS in Dhaka and Rassel, a grocer of Jhenidah District. The dead bodies were recovered on December 1 following a confessional statement of Rokunuzzaman alias Manik, a top cadre of outlawed PBCP arrested on November 30. Police quoting the arrested cadre said that a gang led by Manik abducted Mehedi Hasan Sohag from Majampur area in Kushtia on November 1. They later demanded a ransom of BNR 3 million from Sohag''s family. Police also added that the cadres killed the abductees in between November 15 and 20 as their families failed to pay the ransom and dumped the bodies at Taragunia graveyard.

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