Asaduzzaman Tuhin, a 40-year-old staff reporter for the Bangla-language daily Protidiner Kagoj in Gazipur, a suburb of Dhaka, was chased and hacked to death by a group of armed assailants at around 8 p.m. on August 7, 2024. Protidiner Kagoj reported that the attack occurred after Tuhin filmed several armed men assaulting a man in a public dispute.
Police said the killing was orchestrated by a fraud ring led by a man named Kopa Mizan, known as "Ketu Mizan," and his wife, Parul Akter alias "Golapi," who had set up the assault as part of a "honey trap" scheme. When the assailants saw Tuhin recording the incident, they allegedly ordered him to delete the footage; after he refused and identified himself as a journalist, they chased him into a nearby tea shop and killed him with machetes, newspaper Prothom Alo reported.
Seven people were arrested in connection with the killing, including Mizan, Golapi, Md. Swadhin Hossain, Al Amin, Rafiqul Islam, Shah Jalal, Faisal Hasan, and Sabbir Sumon. Police said they have CCTV footage, eyewitness accounts, and other evidence, and pledged to submit a
chargesheet within 15 days, according to news reports.