Motor mechanic shot dead

Criminals gunned down a motor mechanic in the city's Mohakhali area yesterday morning.
The deceased was identified as Mohammad Jamal Hossain, 30, a resident of the Institute of Public Health (IPH) colony at Mohakhali.
The gang took Jamal to a lane near his house around 9:00am, shot him in the abdomen, thigh and back and left the scene. Jamal was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctors declared him dead.
His brother Abdul Awal told The Daily Star that a local man named Masud Rana called Jamal out of their house and took him to a nearby lane. “Hearing gunshots, we rushed to the spot and found Jamal bullet-hit in the back, abdomen and thigh,” Awal said.
Local people said they saw four people, including three locals, fleeing the spot after the incident.
Awal said Jamal had slapped a local criminal for taking drugs inside the Institute of Health Technology compound on Thursday.
No case was filed in connection with the murder as of 7:00pm yesterday.