Stock investor shot dead by robbers in city
A gang of alleged robbers stormed a stock market investor's house in the city's Mirpur in broad daylight yesterday and shot him dead.
Family members of the deceased Kazi Zia Hayder Ali, 50, suspect that one of their tenants carried out the attack through hired criminals or associates over a previous feud.
Hayder, an expatriate in South Korea, returned to Bangladesh three years ago and became involved in the stock market.
His nephew Mohammad Farhad said around 11 men carrying firearms entered the first-floor flat on the three-storied building at Moddho Pirerbagh around 2:45pm, kept Hayder's wife and daughter hostage at gunpoint and began robbing the place.
They shot Hayder on the chest at one point of the heist and attempted to make an escape, he added.
Hayder's brother Kazi Monjurul Haque Khokon said he rushed out of his residence, adjacent to Hayder's, and grabbed hold of one of the men. But the men exploded a bomb which left him dazed, unable to keep his grip, he added.
The family rushed Hayder to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
A man started demanding Tk 5 lakh from Hayder over phone as extortion a few days after December 16 when Hayder drove out some guests of the tenant, Abdul Majid, for gambling inside Majid's flat, said Farhad.
The feud was then settled by the locals, he said, adding that the family, however, did not inform police about these incidents.
Mirpur Police Station Officer-in-Charge Kazi Wazed Ali said they will investigate to find whether it was a planned murder.
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