35 sourcesFirst reported Sun 25 Oct at 00:00, updated 15 h ago
অটোরিকশা চুরির অভিযোগে আধা কিলোমিটার ধাওয়া করে পিটুনি, দুজনের মৃত্যু
two die after mob chases and beats suspected auto rickshaw thieves
Photo: The Daily Star
Neutral summary
Two men were beaten to death by a crowd in Gangachara upazila, Rangpur, early Sunday, after being accused of stealing a battery-powered auto-rickshaw. Police and locals said the vehicle was taken from the house of Siddiqur Rahman Sohel, who raised the alarm; a mosque loudspeaker announcement prompted worshippers at Fajr prayers to join the chase. The two men allegedly abandoned the vehicle and tried to flee through a paddy field near a canal in the Uttar Panapukur area of Barabil union, about half a kilometre from the house, where they were caught and beaten. Police said they recovered the bodies and sent them for autopsy to Rangpur Medical College Hospital. OC Abdus Sabur said legal action is under way. Reports named the dead as Ejarul Haque alias Rezaul Kana and Sadikul Islam, though ages and addresses varied across outlets, and some reports said their identities were not yet confirmed.
Where accounts differ. The Daily Star and Jugantor say the two men were not identified, while Prothom Alo, The Daily Waadaa and UNB name them, and the ages (42 or 46 for the older man, 25 or 32 for the younger) and village details differ between outlets.
Jugantor
The Daily Star
Prothom Alo
United News of Bangladesh (UNB)
The Daily Waadaa
Written by AI from these outlets' articles: facts they report, claims attributed, numbers checked against the sources. It may still contain errors; read the originals.
Article analysis
Channel 24
Kalbela
Jugantor
Desh Rupantor
The Daily Observer
Barta24.com
Jamuna Television
Dainik Sangbad
Manab Zamin
Daily Bangladesh
RTV
Banglavision
The Daily Ittefaq
The Daily Star1
Independent Television
Daily Naya Diganta
Dainik Bangla
Dhaka Times
Risingbd.com
United News of Bangladesh (UNB)
Prothom Alo
Samakal
Bangladesh Journal
The Daily Waadaa
Dhaka Stream
Alokito Bangladesh
Ekattor TV
New Age
Dhaka Tribune
Ajker Patrika
The Financial Express
Jago News 24
Dainik Azadi
Banglanews24.com
Kaler Kantho
Band AStraight reporting
The Daily StarIn quotes
Reports the killings descriptively, placing 'mob beating' in quotes, marking the theft as alleged, and attributing the sequence of events to police and local residents.
32 of the 35 outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally, so this framing was a choice the story did not require.
Nothing in the headline, sourcing or narration pushes the reader.
1 Straight reporting10 Campaigning
The same event, three framings
The earliest headline of each kind. Marked words are judgements in the headline itself: stated as fact or in quotation marks.
Neutral 32 of 35
অটোরিকশা চুরির অভিযোগে গণপিটুনি, রংপুরে দুজন নিহত
Channel 24
Stated as fact 2 of 35
কুমিল্লায় রাইডারকে পিটিয়ে হত্যার অভিযোগ
Jago News 24
In quotation marks 1 of 35
2 killed in 'mob beating' over suspected auto-rickshaw theft in Rangpur
The Daily Star
How the 1 was worked out
The model answers seven fixed questions from 0 to 3 and cites evidence for each. The score is calculated from the answers in code, so any disagreement points to one question.
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G1
Reporter's own voiceNarration is descriptive throughout.0
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G2
HeadlineReports the event or the speech act; contested claims are attributed.0
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G3
Other side missingEvery party involved responds substantively.0
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G4
Weight of the unanswered allegationNo allegation against an identifiable party.0
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G5
Loaded quotesQuotes are informational.0
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G6
Unattributed claimsEvery disputable claim is attributed.0
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
1NormalwashingReporter voice· not scored
They were then beaten, and both died at the scene.
Agentless passive obscures who carried out the killing, though attributed to police and locals and preceded by 'locals caught them'.
2CoverageReporter voice· not scored
According to police and locals
Account of the theft comes only from police and locals, with no families of the deceased quoted; the deceased are the accused party but cannot respond and families are a routine omission.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0 G1 = 0, below 2: not band D G1 = 0 and S ≤ 1: band A Band A: S = 0 gives 1, S = 1 gives 2. Score 1
Every headline, in order
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Channel 24
Bangladesh
First to report
Neutral
-
Kalbela
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Jugantor
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Desh Rupantor
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
The Daily Observer
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Barta24.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Jamuna Television
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Dainik Sangbad
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Manab Zamin
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Daily Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
RTV
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Banglavision
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
The Daily Ittefaq
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
The Daily Star
Bangladesh
Analysed above
In quotes
2 killed in 'mob beating' over suspected auto-rickshaw theft in Rangpur
-
Independent Television
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Daily Naya Diganta
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Dainik Bangla Bangladesh Neutral
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Dhaka Times
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Risingbd.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Prothom Alo
Bangladesh
Neutral
অটোরিকশা চুরির অভিযোগে আধা কিলোমিটার ধাওয়া করে পিটুনি, দুজনের মৃত্যু
-
Samakal
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Bangladesh Journal
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Dhaka Stream
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Alokito Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Neutral
রংপুরে ব্যাটারিচালিত রিক্সা চুরির অভিযোগে দুজনকে পিটিয়ে হত্যা
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Ekattor TV
Bangladesh
Neutral
রংপুরে চুরির অভিযোগে মাইকে ঘোষণা দিয়ে দুইজনকে পিটিয়ে হত্যা
-
New Age
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Ajker Patrika
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Jago News 24
Bangladesh
Stated as fact
-
Dainik Azadi
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Banglanews24.com
Bangladesh
Stated as fact
-
Kaler Kantho
Bangladesh
Neutral
About this method
Method. Bias types follow the Table of Media Bias Elements and the Media Bias Taxonomy (both CC BY 4.0). The impartiality rules follow the BBC Editorial Guidelines and the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. This analysis was made by claude-opus-5-5 on rubric 1.0.0. The score is calculated from the seven answers, never generated.
What this is not. No outlet gets a standing bias rating, and there is no left/right axis, because that axis does not describe Bangladeshi politics. Each analysis covers one article about one event. Members' analytics count how each outlet's headlines were labelled over a chosen period, with the number of headlines behind every share, and also show the average score of an outlet's scored articles: that average describes those articles (mostly each story's lead), not the outlet, and outlets are never ranked by it or by any share.
Known limits. Headlines are grouped into stories automatically, so an unrelated headline sometimes slips in; it is shown faded rather than hidden. Where outlets carry the same wire copy, the comparison has little to show. Human annotators agree on bias in Bangla news only moderately (κ = 0.574 at best), which limits what any automated score can claim.