Missing candidate Asif traced in Dhaka

Missing independent candidate in the by-polls to Brahmanbaria-2 Abu Asif Ahmed was traced in the city’s Bashundhara area five days after he went missing from his electoral area, police said on Thursday.

Mohammad Shakawat Hossian, superintendent of police (SP) in the district, said they came to know about his whereabouts when they contacted victim’s wife Meherunnesa for their investigation over his disappearance on Thursday.

“He (Asif) will be brought back from the capital and interrogated about his disappearance,” he said.

Asif, who was expelled from the BNP for contesting in the election, went missing on January 27 after he had come out of his house for campaign.