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One shot dead in Gazipur

27 August 2009, 17:00 PM

A Correspondent, Gazipur

A middle aged man who was shot by criminals on Wednesday evening near Dhaka Bypass Biswa Road in Mirer Bazar area of Gazipur Sadar died at hospital at night. M M Ahsan Bari received two bullets in his left thigh and one in his right leg. The criminals left him in a bush. Ahsan crawled to the road and came to Mirer Bazar in a rickshaw. Later, people sent him to Tongi Government Hospital where he died at around 9 pm. Joydevpur police said, from an identity card found in his pocket they came to know that the victim was the executive editor of a weekly named "Samprotik Samoy". He is a son of Abdul Bari of Agailjhora upazila in Barisal. Later, Bari's brother-in-law Ziaur Rahman Rumi filed a case with Joydevpur police station yesterday.