Two city shop staff shot
Alleged extortionists shot two employees of a tailor's shop at city's Gendaria yesterday.
The injured employees Omor Faruq, 30 and Jahangir Alam, 33, of M Muslim Tailors at Satish Sarkar road, were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Omor said he and four employees were working inside the shop when two armed youths entered around 2:10pm.
The youths fired four to five rounds of bullets, one of which hit his right leg, while Jahangir received two bullets on the chest and right wrist, he said.
The shop's owner Mohammad Muslim Uddin alleged that the youths were extortionists who were demanding Tk 10 lakh over phone for the last three days and threatening to kill him if he did not comply.
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