Businessman shot in capital
A gang of armed assailants shot a construction contractor at his Madhya Badda office in the capital last night.
The injured, Iman Ali, 38, was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). He had five bullets lodged in the lower parts of his body.
Around five or six masked goons stormed into Iman's office on the first floor of a three-story building around 8:00pm and opened fire on him when he was sitting with some friends, said Zafar Ullah, one of the friends.
"In the face of the attack, we got dispersed and ran for cover," he told The Daily Star. Once the attackers left the scene they rushed the victim to the hospital, he said.
Badda police said they were yet to unearth the motive behind the shootout.
Meanwhile, Kafrul police recovered the body of a private car driver from Bijoy Sarani opposite the military museum early yesterday.
The body of the deceased, Hossain Gazi, 30, was sent to DMCH. A gamchha (cotton towel) was fastened around his neck, said police.
Injury marks on his body suggested that the man was tortured before he was strangled, said the morgue sources.
Hossain Gazi went missing after he left his employer's house in Banani around 10:00pm Monday for his home in Dakkhin Khan.
A relative of the victim said Gazi had a mobile phone and some money with him, and these were lost.
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