OUR CORRESPONDENT, Bagerhat

A college student was chased from his home and shot dead by assailants in Bagerhat’s Chitalmari upazila yesterday afternoon.

The victim was identified as Amir Hamza, 23, son of Ruhul Amin Munshi of Shibpur village, and a first-year honours student at Khulna Government Sundarban College. He also worked at Popular Diagnostic Centre in Khulna.

Bagerhat Additional Superintendent of Police Md Shamim Hossain confirmed the incident and said law enforcement agencies, including CID, PBI and DB, have launched efforts to identify and arrest those involved in the killing.

According to the victim’s family members and locals, around 4:00pm, Amir was in the yard of his house talking with his father and uncle when a group

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