Two people, including a teenage factory worker, were beaten to death in separate incidents while another person was shot and injured by unidentified criminals in the city yesterday.

One of the deceased was Ashraf Hossain, 14, a factory worker of Kamrangirchar, but the identity of a young man could not be known immediately.

Police said Ashraf s friends beat him to death on the spot following a quarrel over playing marble at West Nabinagar of Kamrangirchar

at about 2:00pm. Police detained a 14-year-old boy in this connection.

Mohammadpur police said they recovered the body of the unidentified youth from Sher Shah Suri road early morning and sent it to Dhaka Medical College morgue.

The youth was beaten and strangulated to death by criminals in the early hours, police and medical sources said.

Police, however, could not tell the motive behind the murder.

Besides, Abdur Razzak, 50, a security guard of a garment factory of Mohakhali Wireless Gate, was

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shot and wounded by two gunmen at about 7:30am. He was admitted to DMCH in a critical condition.

Razzak told reporters at DMCH that the armed men first looked for the general manager of the factory. As the GM was not there the gang then fired several bullets at him, he said.

Gulshan police said protection money might be the reason behind the attack.