A ward-level leader of ruling Awami League’s youth body Jubo League was shot by unknown miscreants in front of his Hatkhola residence late last night.
Abdul Mannan, 32, general secretary of Dhaka South City Corporation’s ward number 31 unit Jubo League, was coming back home with a friend by rickshaw around 10:45pm when he was shot, his family said.
His wife Nusrat Jahan said having heard the sound of several gunshots in the street adjacent to their house – Nakshi Apartment, they rushed downstairs and saw Mannan lying on the road in the middle of a pool of blood.
Nusrat said she had been told by witnesses that there were two to three miscreants who opened fire on her husband. She also said that Mannan’s friend Al Amin was with him but he had probably ran away to save his own life after the miscreants opened fire.
Al Amin could not be immediately reached.
Mannan was first taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in critical condition, with at least two bullet wounds on his head and chest. Our correspondent reports that Mannan was referred to the Square Hospital because there was no life support facilities available at that moment at DMCH.
He was brought to the Square Hospital around 11:50pm. But the on-duty doctor, Tanvir, said Mannan required an emergency vascular surgery, which could not be done because there was no vascular surgeon in the hospital. He was then referred to the Apollo Hospital.
Nurul Amin, assistant commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Wari Zone, told the Dhaka Tribune: “We have heard about the incident and have already began collecting information. As the victim is now under treatment, we could not talk to family. So, we are not yet clear about the reason behind the incident.”
Nusrat also said that Mannan ran a drug store near the Mitford Hospital on Old Dhaka. They live on the second floor of the seven-storey apartment building.
When this report was being filed around 12:50am, Mannan was being taken to the Apollo Hospital located in the Bashundhara Residential Area on the other side of the city.