1 killed, 7 bullet-hit in city gun attacks
A suspected drug peddler was gunned down allegedly by his partners at the city's Jatrabari last night while unknown criminals pumped 10 bullets into the Lalbagh unit president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Dhanmondi.
In another incident, at least six persons were bullet-hit as criminals indiscriminately fired at a rickshaw garage in the city's Gulshan yesterday afternoon.
The deceased drug peddler was identified as Mohammad Batan, 35. Jatrabari police said they found him in a playground in Bhanga Press area at about 8:30pm.
Police suspect that Batan was shot dead by his partners following an internal feud over the drug business.
BCL leader Sagor Ahmed Shahin, 34, was attacked by armed criminals at about 9:30pm near the Beximco office on Road-1 at Dhanmondi when he went to meet Awami League (AL) leader and Beximco Vice-Chairman Salman F Rahman.
Witnesses said the criminals shot him from a short distance. He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in a critical condition.
Shahin's relatives said he went to meet Salman Rahman but the AL leader was not present in his office. Shahin was attacked on his way home.
Police suspect that the BCL leader was attacked by his rivals.
Hamida Parveen, assistant commissioner of Ramna-Dhanmondi zone, told The Daily Star that Shahin went to Dhanmondi by a motorbike along with another youth who has been missing since the incident.
"We are looking for the youth. If he is found, the criminals would be identified and the cause of the incident would be unearthed," she said.
GULSHAN INCIDENT
The injured were identified as owner of the garage Mosharraf Hossain, 30, rickshaw mechanic Joynal Abedin, 28, rickshaw puller Ali Akbar, 50, rickshaw-van-pullers Zahirul Islam, 20, and Mohammad Shaheen and garment worker Abdul Jalil, 17.
They were rushed to DMCH.
Wounded rickshaw garage owner Mosharraf claimed that the attackers were extortionists but police suspect that the attack was the consequence of an earlier feud between rival groups.
Mosharraf said two armed youths came at about 1:15pm to the garage at Korail slum and sprayed bullets indiscriminately at him.
"I tried to run away and fell into a wetland but two bullets already hit me," he said. "A few unknown criminals had demanded tolls from me over phone a few days ago. But I refused to pay them the toll. They may have made the attack," he added.
Gulshan Police Station Sub-Inspector Mahmud Hasan, however, said after preliminary investigation police came to the decision that the attack was the outcome of an earlier feud and Mosharraf was the target of the criminals.
He refused to disclose any detail about the attackers.
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