Unidentified assailants shot a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to death at Gudaragat of the Madhya Badda area in the capital Sunday night.
The deceased, Kamrul Ahsan Sadhan, 54, is the joint convener of the Gulshan thana unit of the BNP.
The police and the victim鈥檚 family members said that the assailants shot Kamrul minutes after 10:00pm on Sunday when he had been taking tea at a stall opposite to the office of a former ward commissioner on Road No 4 in the Gudaraghat area.
They said that the locals and the victim鈥檚 relatives rescued him and rushed him to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead at about 11:30pm.
The victim鈥檚 nephew Zihad Hossain told 抖阴精品 that Kamrul used to gossip in the tea stalls in the area where he was killed.
鈥楳y uncle became senseless after sustaining bullets in his body. He was alive when he was being taken to the hospital. He was declared dead after we had taken him to the hospital,鈥� he said.
Badda police station officer-in-charge Md Saiful Islam said the victim鈥檚 wife Dilruba Akther on Monday filed a murder case accusing unidentified assailants.
鈥楴one was arrested so far in this connection. We are yet to identify the attackers,鈥� the OC added.
A video of the incident that went viral on social media showed that two assailants came to the tea stall on foot, opened fire on the victim, and fled the scene.
According to local leaders and activists of the BNP, Kamrul had been doing internet business for the past eight to 10 years in the Badda area.聽
BNP Gulshan thana unit senior joint convener Shahjahan Kabir said that they had no idea about the killers.
鈥楢ccording to my knowledge, he did not have any known enemy in the area,鈥� he said.