Gaibandha: Law enforcers in several drives arrested 15 people from separate places of Gaibandha from Saturday night to Sunday morning in connection with the killing of Gaibandha-1 Lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton.

Besides, the district administration deployed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members in several points of Sundarganj upazila to ward off any untoward incident.

Meanwhile, Sundarganj upazila Awami League enforced a day-long hartal from Sunday morning in the upazila protesting the murder.

The agitated leaders and activists of Awami League blocked two trains at Bamandanga Railway Station in the morning.

Goalm Mostafa, general secretary of Sundarganj upazila unit of Awami League, said they called the day-long hartal at about 12:30am on Sunday demanding immediate arrest of Liton’s killers.

The first namaz-e-janaza of Liton will be held at Rangpur Police Lines and later his body will be taken to Dhaka where his second namaz-e-janaza will be held at South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad.

The body will be brought back to Gaibandha for burial.

A three-member delegation of Awami League, led by its central leader Jahangir Kabir Nanak, visited the family members of the slain MP on Sunday.

Members of Jamaat-Shibir are involved in the killing of Liton, Nanak said while talking to reporters.

An autopsy was conducted on the body of the slain lawmaker at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) at about 11:00pm on Saturday, said Dr Bimal Chandra of RMCH.

Miscreants shot ruling Awami League lawmaker from Gaibandha-1 (Sundarganj) constituency Manjurul Islam Liton dead in a gun attack at Bamandanga village in Sundarganj upazila on Saturday.

Doctors declared the child-shooter MP dead at about 7:30pm, 15 minutes after he was rushed at the Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) with two bullet wounds in the chest from his home at Sundarganj.

Gaibandha police said two unidentified men shot Liton from a close proximity at his village home at Masterpara near Bamondanga railway station as they appeared at the scene mounting on a motorbike at about 6:00pm, saying they wanted to meet him.

As the unsuspecting MP from Gaibandha-1 constituency came to the guestroom to see them, the gunmen opened fire on him.

'Three assailants arrived at the yard of Liton's house where he was holding a meeting with some people . . . one of them fired two shots from a pistol,' Gaibandha's additional police super Abdullah Al-Faruk told BSS.

He said the miscreants, however, fled the scene using the motorbike.

Soon after the incident people at the neighbourhood particularly the Awami League activists staged protests blocking the railway line at Bamondanga station.

Liton hit headlines after shooting a minor boy, Sourav, 8, son of Sazu Miah of Gopalcharan village in the upazila, on October 2, 2015.