Security guard shot
A trader was found stabbed to death in the city’s Bangshal area and a security guard of a factory was shot injured allegedly by an extortionist gang at Gandaria yesterday.
The deceased, Bangshal resident Sajid Anam Masud, 32, son of Arju Miah, was a mineral water trader. No clue to the killer’s identity has been found.
Injured Bachchu Sarkar, 55, a security guard of Pegasus Sock Factory, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with injury to his left knee.
Sub-Inspector Anwar Hossain of Bangshal Police Station said, “The trader’s body was found near a tin-roofed house of one Hossain Mollah on Bangshal Lane around 9:00am.”
“The body bore multiple stab wounds and the veins of hands were cut,” the SI added.
Sajid’s younger brother, Mohammad Arman, said, “My brother went to sleep at home at night but in the morning he was not found.”
Police sent the body to DMCH morgue for autopsy.
Meanwhile, Bachchu Sarkar at hospital told reporters that as he opened the gate responding to a knocking around 1:30pm, a masked man fired three bullets, one of which hit him.
The attacker and his accomplices ran away immediately.
The factory owner, Mohammad Ehsan, earlier told police that some unidentified extortionists were demanding Tk 10 lakh from him over the past three months, said Officer-in-Charge Faruque Ahmed of Gendaria Police Station.
The OC said Ehsan had refused to pay the money, prompting attack by the extortionists.
