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AL leader gunned down in city

Staff Correspondent
Unidentified criminals yesterday shot dead a businessman and local Awami League (AL) leader in the capital's Shyampur area.
Meanwhile, armed criminals hijacked a microbus firing shots at its driver while a rickshaw-van puller was injured when fleeing muggers opened fire on local people in the city's Mirpur.
Police and witnesses said a gang of four to five criminals sprayed bullets on Fariduddin Sarker, 45, a businessman and sports secretary of Syampur thana AL unit, while he was having breakfast with friends at his Toma Hotel and Restaurant at Shyampur at about 8:30am.
Sources said Fariduddin was the president of Miraznagar DND Dam Development Committee and also the general secretary of Rayerbagh Traders' Association.
"Some four to five youths sprayed bullets on Farid indiscriminately and left the scene immediately," said Farid's friend Fazlul Huq, who was with the victim during the incident.
"Farid had always tried to prevent criminal activities in the area. It might have infuriated a certain quarter," said Muhasinur Rahman, brother-in-law of the deceased.
Meanwhile, local people staged demonstrations and put up blockades on several roads in the area protesting the killing.
Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) sources said Farid received seven bullets.
Officer-in-charge of Shyampur Police Station Alamgir Hossain said they were yet to identify the killers or figure out the motive behind the murder.
Meanwhile, microbus driver FROM PAGE 16
Mohammad Ali, 40, was injured after criminals fired on him near Mirpur Technical College while he was on his way to a CNG filling station in the area.
Later, he was rushed to the DMCH.
"A gang of five criminals asked me to hand over the key of the microbus to them pointing firearms at me at about 3:30am. When I refused, they fired a shot at me and took away the vehicle," said Mohammad Ali, a resident of Udayan Tower in Mirpir
Zakir Hossain, 45, a rickshawvan puller of North Ibrahimpur, received a bullet in his left leg as a gang of muggers fired shots indiscriminately while fleeing by a taxicab after mugging a motorbike rider in front of Al-Helal Hospital at about3:l5am.
Zakir said when the motorbike rider screamed for help, local people chased the criminals who fired shots at them indiscriminately leaving Zakir injured.