OUR CORRESPONDENT, Benapole

A BNP leader was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in Shankarpur of Jashore town yesterday evening.

The deceased, Alamgir Hossain, 55, was the joint general secretary of Jashore Municipality Ward-7 BNP.

The incident occurred when Alamgir was in front of the councillor’s office in the area around 7:30pm. A group of people suddenly opened fire, police said, quoting locals, adding that one of the bullets pierced the left side of his head and he collapsed on the spot, bleeding profusely.

Hearing the gunshots, locals rescued him and rushed him to Jashore General Hospital, where Dr Bichitra Mallik declared him dead.

The doctor added that Alamgir had died before reaching the hospital due to excessive bleeding from the head injury.

Following the incident, panic and tension spread across the area.

Anindya Islam Amit, acting organisational secretary of the BNP’s Khulna divisional unit, said BNP leaders and activists were systematically killed even during the Awami League government’s tenure, and now it is occurring in the same manner.