Gaibandha: A complaint was filed on Sunday night in connection with the killing of Gaibandha-1 ruling Awami League lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton.

Sundarganj Police Station Officer-in-charge Atiar Rahman said Liton’s younger sister Tahmida Bulbul Kakoli filed the complaint against 4-5 unidentified people with the police station.

Meanwhile, law enforcers arrested 18 people from separate places of the district from Saturday night to Sunday noon in connection with the murder.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were also deployed in several points of the upazila to ward off any untoward incident.  

Besides, Awami League Sundarganj upazila unit observed a daylong hartal in the upazila protesting the murder.

The shutdown that began at 6:00am ended at 6:00pm.

Witnesses said a group of pickets set fire to rail tracks near Bamandanga Railway Station in the morning.

The agitating leaders and activists of local Awami League blocked several roads in the upazila placing logs in at least 12 places.

Separate processions were brought out by local AL leaders and activists and general people demanding justice for MP Liton.

Talking to reporters, general people and local AL leaders blamed the lack of security for the MP for the killing.

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

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.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday said there is no security threat following the killing of lawmaker Liton. "The government is not alarmed about security issue in Bangladesh as law enforcers are working to identify killers of Liton," he told reporters at his ministry office.

The minister assured that law enforcers would find out the terrors, who killed Liton at his house in Gaibandha yesterday evening, and bring them to book. 

"We are working considering all sorts of possible issues to ensure security across the country," he said adding that this is the first such of attack and it was a new technique that a group of five terrors equipped with firearms entered into a MP's house and killed him.

The minister said the government would arrest killers within short time and unearth the mystery behind the murder. 

The namaz-e-janaza of MP Liton will be held at 10:00am on Monday at the South Plaza of Parliament, said a Parliament Secretariat handout.

From the Parliament complex, his body will be taken to Gaibandha for his burial in his family graveyard at 4:00pm.

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