UP panel chairman shot dead

A leader of the ruling Awami League was shot dead in Goalanda upazila of Rajbari yesterday.

The victim Abdul Gani Mandal, 60, was the panel chairman of Daulatdia Union Parishad, said police.

He was shot around 10:45pm on Wednesday while returning home after attending a namaz-e-janaza in the area.

The victim's son Alam Mandal said a miscreant blocked his father's way to home by a motorbike and shot him. The criminal then swiftly fled the scene.

Hearing the gunshot, locals rushed to the spot and sent him to Goalanda Upazila Health Complex. He was then shifted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College Hospital in Faridpur, he added.

As his condition deteriorated, he was referred to Enam Medical College in Savar where he breathed last around 11:30am yesterday, he further said.

"A bullet was removed from his lower abdomen but he did not survive," he said.

Mohammad Abdullah Al Taybir, officer-in-charge of Goalanga Ghat Police Station, said they visited the spot on information and were trying to detain the miscreant.

No case was filed in this connection till 5:30pm yesterday when this report was filed.