Three people were killed in separate criminal attacks in the city’s Tejgaon, Sabujbagh and Kadamtoli yesterday.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead vegetables trader Jahangir Hossain, 30, of West Tejturibazar in front of his home while criminals strangled 80-year-old security guard Jamir Ali at Sabujbagh and slit an unidentified youth’s throat in Kadamtoli.
Jahangir, a trader of Karwan Bazar, was shot as he was walking home around 10:30pm.
Tejgaon police said criminals shot Jahangir twice in his chest and back and fled the scene. He died on the spot.
Police and family members of the deceased could not say who could have killed him.
Unidentified criminals strangled octogenarian security guard Jamir Ali of an under-construction building on Wasa Road of Maniknagar in Sabujbagh and stole three tonnes of iron rods of a nearby under-construction building early yesterday.
Sabujbagh police recovered the body around 9:00am. Saddam Haji, owner of the under-construction building, discovered the body under bricks around 7:00am, police said.
Sabujbagh police and the victim’s son Mujibur Rahman said the hands and legs of Jamir Ali were tied and his mouth was gagged.
Criminals could have killed Jamir for trying to stop them stealing the iron rods, police said.
Mujibur filed a case with Sabujbagh Police Station in this connection.
Kadamtoli police recovered the body of a youth behind a house near Muradpur High School in Kadamtoli around 7:30pm.
The body of the youth wearing a red T-shirt and jeans was sent to Dhaka Medical College morgue.