A leader of Jatiyatabadi Seschasebak Dal was gunned down and one-recived bullet injuries by unidentified assailants in the city’s Bijaynagar area under Shahbagh police station yesterday.
Unknown assailants shot dead Nazrul Islam and wounded his associate at Bijoynagar in the city yesterday.
Nazrul, 32, president 56 Ward JSSD, a front organization of BNP, was standing in front of his brother’s spare-parts shop at 3:30pm when the gunmen coming in a motorbike sprayed bullets at him from a close range, witnesses said.
Hit by four bullets in different parts of the body Nazrul was rushed to DMCH where the doctors declared him dead.
Mohiuddin, associate of Nazrul, wounded by bullet was admitted to the hospital. He was undergoing a critical operation, hospital sources said at 7:00pm.
Javed Hossain, brother of Nazrul, said he suspected previous enmity might be the reason for the murder.
"My brother was getting threats on life over phone two days before the election.