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Transport leader gunned down

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Unknown assailants gunned down a transport leader in the city's Mirpur area yesterday morning.
Police and colleagues of the victim said five gangsters, who came by a silver car, sprayed Abdus Salam, 40, with bullets near the Ideal College at Section 10.
Salam took at least nine bullets in the head, throat, chest, abdomen and thighs and died on the spot.
He was the joint organising secretary of Mirpur Thana Sarak Paribahan Sramik Union and acting as its general secretary in absence of the office-bearer.
Mirpur police retrieved the body and sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for postmortem.
Witnesses said Salam went to the scene at about 11:10am in the Abdus Salam
pillion seat of Shaheb Ali's motorcycle. Ali is allegedly member of a gang in Mirpur.
The victim's colleagues said he was killed as he stopped paying Tk 30,000 a month to the operatives of Kala Jahangir gang a few days ago.
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Some of them claimed that they received calls from the gang after the incident that threatened them to act as per their direction in the killing case or face dire consequences.
Some said Salam was an extortionist and paid an amount to the Kala Jahangir group every month. The gang took revenge as he stopped paying them.
"Several suspicious people would call my husband by mobile phone recently," said Rina Begum, wife of Salam.
Quoting witnesses, she said before the incident Salam went to Gudaraghat and came across Shaheb Ali.
Ali whispered something to the ears of Salam and they rode to the scene in front of the shops in the northwestern corner of the college.
Ali left the scene along with the killers as Salam collapsed on the ground taking the hail of bullets, witnesses said.
A transport leader linked the killing to the break of the financial arrangement between Salam's union and the gang.
He said: "The general secretary of the Sramik union was hiding for fear of attack by the gang."
Some, however, held factional fighting in the union responsible for the killing.
No case was filed till 6:00pm yesterday.