Muggers kill rice trader in city
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
FE Report
A rice trader was shot and killed, allegedly by muggers, at Babubazar in the capital Tuesday, police said.
Soon after the shooting incident, the agitated rice traders of Babubazar staged demonstration in front of National Press Club with the dead body and demanded exemplary punishment of the killers.
Later, traders of Babubazar and Badamtoli decided to keep the wholesale rice markets closed today (Wednesday) to protest the killing.
Witnesses said three young men riding on a motorbike intercepted a rickshaw carrying rice trader Afil Uddin (40), owner of VIP Rice Mill, one of the largest rice distributors of Babubazar, and opened fire on him indiscriminately, leaving him fatally wounded at about 3:45pm. Afil was taken to Mitford Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
A sub-inspector of Kotwali police station, quoting the victim's fellow traders, said the gun attack was launched when Afil was returning to his shop after withdrawing money from a local bank. "Muggers might be involved in the killing," he suspected.
Shahbagh police arrested a young man along with a firearm from Fular Road area within 40 minutes of the incident. "We're interrogating him," officer-in-charge of the police station Rezaul Karim said.
Meanwhile, in another incident, robbers strangulated Rezia Begum (75) at a flat at Purbo Goran in the early hours of the day.
Khilgaon police said a gang of robbers stormed into the second floor of a three-storied building at the area and started looting by holding the inmates hostage at gunpoint. They killed the elderly women, as she tried to resist the gang.
A rice trader was shot and killed, allegedly by muggers, at Babubazar in the capital Tuesday, police said.
Soon after the shooting incident, the agitated rice traders of Babubazar staged demonstration in front of National Press Club with the dead body and demanded exemplary punishment of the killers.
Later, traders of Babubazar and Badamtoli decided to keep the wholesale rice markets closed today (Wednesday) to protest the killing.
Witnesses said three young men riding on a motorbike intercepted a rickshaw carrying rice trader Afil Uddin (40), owner of VIP Rice Mill, one of the largest rice distributors of Babubazar, and opened fire on him indiscriminately, leaving him fatally wounded at about 3:45pm. Afil was taken to Mitford Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
A sub-inspector of Kotwali police station, quoting the victim's fellow traders, said the gun attack was launched when Afil was returning to his shop after withdrawing money from a local bank. "Muggers might be involved in the killing," he suspected.
Shahbagh police arrested a young man along with a firearm from Fular Road area within 40 minutes of the incident. "We're interrogating him," officer-in-charge of the police station Rezaul Karim said.
Meanwhile, in another incident, robbers strangulated Rezia Begum (75) at a flat at Purbo Goran in the early hours of the day.
Khilgaon police said a gang of robbers stormed into the second floor of a three-storied building at the area and started looting by holding the inmates hostage at gunpoint. They killed the elderly women, as she tried to resist the gang.