DHAKA: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Bangladesh authorities to conduct an efficient investigation into the murder of a local journalist and arrest of the killers.

Earlier on Wednesday, the dismembered body of a reporter of a local newspaper was found in railway station area in Chuadanga district. 

The deceased was identified as Sadrul Alam Nipul, a reporter of local Bengali-language daily Dainik Mathabhanga.

Family sources said that the victim went out of house on Tuesday night after receiving a phone call and did not return home that night. 

Nipul's brother Bakul alleged that local drug smugglers were responsible for the journalist's death and it was a premeditated murder.

Source: CPJ

BDST: 1204 HRS, MAY 24, 2014