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Violent protests in Lalbagh, other areas

DCC commissioner shot dead

By Staff Correspondent
Commissioner of Ward Number 62 of the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Haji Mohammad Alim, 38’. was gunned down and his elder brother was shot by a group of local musclemen near their Lalbagh residence yesterday evening.
Elder brother of the deceased. Haji Mohammad Nazim who suffered bullet injuries on his left leg and back, talking to newsmen at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). alleged that gunmen under the shelter of a powerful minister made the attack. He. however. did not name the minister.
Angry protesters set fire at various places in the locality and violence spread in the entire Lalbagh area soon after the incident.
Labour and Manpower Minister and former MP from the area Mir Shawkat All. giving his reaction on the incident said. T am Very shocked."
He told The Dally Star over telephone that "they (the killers) are known to all in Lalbagh as the cadres of Alim, the deceased commissioner."
Violence also spread up to the Dhaka Medical College and the Dhaka University areas where student activists set fire to vehicles and panic stricken shop owners closed their shops.
Traffic movement through that area came to a halt. Police lobbed tear gas shells In the DU campus area, near the DMCH emergency wing and Lalbagh Klllermor.
The pro-Awami League Commissioner, according to witnesses. was taken to a bylane at Killarmor near his residence by the assassins on his return from a mosque after Asr prayers. Later, they ( hopped nim on his hands and shot him on point-blank on the chest.
He was rushed to the DMCH where doctors declared him dead.
Awami League and Chhatra League supporters brought out processions soon after the news of Alim's death spread in the area.
Some people chanting slogans Joy Bangla also ransacked some makeshift shops and set fire to some others in that area, witnesses said.
Fire was set also in front of the residence of Mir Shawkat All. they said.
Besides, attempts were made to set fire to the residence of local BNP leadei Jinnah, some local people said. A number of make shift shops in the nearby Palashi area were damaged by the protesters.
AL chief Sheikh Hasina. in a statement, condemned the killing of Haji Alim in the holy month ol Ramadan and held terrorists' of BNP responsible for this.
She demanded immediate arrest and punishment to the killers and recalled that no trial was held as yet for the killing of six persons at Lal bagh after the DCC election in 1994.
DCC Mayor Mohammad Hanif visited the residence of the deceased and expressed his sympathy to the members of the bereaved family.
Talking to The Daily Star last night. Hanif demanded immediate formation of an inquiry committee to probe the killing and demanded punishment to those respon slble.
Abdul Alim had. in a pan chayet on Wednesday strongly reprimanded some local musclemen involved in collecting tolls, claimed local people
These elements were also involved in various other criminal activities, they al leged
Lalbagh police said none was arrested and no case was registered in this connection till late last night
Fire fighters backed by heavy police contingents in riot gear were seen at various points in the area
According to Lalbagh unit of the AL, a mourning pro cession would be brought out from Killermor following the namaj e Janaza of Haji Alim after Juma prayers today
He will tie buried at the Azinipur graveyard