A 30-year-old man was shot and injured reportedly by muggers at Nandipara in Banasree area of the capital on early Sunday.
Bullet-hit Md Nafiz was rescued at about 4:30am and taken to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Abu Bokkar Siddique, father of Nafiz, said when his son was returning home from a friend鈥檚 house in Jatrabari on his motorbike three young men intercepted him and tried to snatch his money, two mobile phones, and the motorbike.
When he resisted, they shot him in the left leg and fled with the belongings, he said.
He was first taken to Farazi Hospital in Banasree and then to DMCH.
Inspector Md Faruk, in charge of the police camp at DMCH, said the young man was brought from Titas Road in Nandipara. 鈥榃e have informed the relevant police station about the incident.鈥�