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Ex-cop shot dead at home

Staff Correspondent
An unidentified gang shot a former police official dead at his West Rampura residence in the capital yesterday morning.
The victim, Fazlur Karim Khan, 66, retired as additional SP from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in 2007, said a relative. He had received presidential awards twice while in service.
Fazlur lived on the second floor of a five-storey building on Wapda Road with his wife and two house helps, Mohammad Azad Hossain, 12, and Sumi, 9.
His wife Afroza Khan Swapna told The Daily Star that their driver Liton went out around 9:30am leaving open one of the two doors to the flat.
Minutes later, three armed men entered the flat and found Swapna on the corridor. One of them took her to a bedroom at gunpoint and confined her.
The other two went to her husband in his study, Swapna said, and moments later, she heard three gunshots.
Azad, who has been working at the flat for the last one year, told this correspondent, “Madam [Swapna] was on the corridor and Nana [Fazlur] was reading the newspaper in the study.
"A youth aged around 22 entered the house with a small firearm, followed by two other gunmen who looked younger," said the boy. He claimed to have seen them from the kitchen beside the corridor.
"The one, who entered first, was about 5 and a half feet
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tall, slightly built and dark complexioned. None of them were masked," he said.
"One of the three then took madam into a bedroom at gunpoint, another came and locked us [Azad and Sumi] on theveranda."
He went on, "Seeing them, Nana had shouted out, 'Hey! What do you want?'” Through a window, Azad saw the first youth arguing with Fazlur Karim.
And, at one stage, the youth shot the retired man in the head. Cowering, Azad heard two more gunshots.
Minutes later, Liton came back; the killers had escaped by then.
Fazlur was found face down at the door of the study. Liton and neighbours rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Swapna said the killers had taken away her husband's gold chain while escaping.
At the DMC morgue, their only daughter Farzana Karim Badhon told journalists that her father had a longstanding dispute with his brother's sons over property at their village home Ramkrishnadi in Sirajdikhan upazila, Munshiganj.
Morgue sources said the body bore a bullet wound in the head.
Nurul Alam, assistant commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police
(Khilgaon), said the motive of the murder was yet to be known. "It is very likely that the armed men were professional killers." Some other law enforcers added the murder was pre-planned.
Detectives are investigating the murder.
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