Ex-MP’s son shot dead in Gazipur

A 28-year-old man has been killed by unidentified miscreants at Bhatgati village in Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila on Sunday night. The deceased, Habibur Rahman Faisal Mia, was the son of late Mukhlesur Rahman Jitu Mia. Mukhlesur was a former BNP MP of Gazipur-5 constituency during Ziaur Rahman's regime. Kaliganj police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Alam Chand said: "The miscreants shot Faisal in the chest while he was returning home. He tried to escape from the criminals but his body gave up and he fell down in front of Kiran Miah's shop." Later, locals rescued him and took him to the Kaliganj Upazila Health Complex where the doctors declared him dead, the OC added. The police are now trying to identify and catch the miscreants.