An activist of Awami League (AL) was shot dead by unidentified assailants at Satkania upazila in Chittagong yesterday night.
Officer-in-Charge of Satkania police station Mohammad Khaled Hossain said about five unidentified people, wearing masks, boarding on a CNG-run auto-rickshaw, attacked on Jamal Uddin, 32, son of Bodi Alam at Fultola Bazar under Kanchana union of the upazila around 7:30pm when he was chatting with some of his friends.
The attackers indiscriminately opened fire at him and fled the scene. He died on the spot, the OC said.
On receiving information, police rushed to the spot and recovered the body of the victim, who was an accused of a mugging case lodged with Satkania police station. But the OC did not confirm the deceased’s political identity.
AL’s Chittagong south district unit General Secretary Mafizur Rahman claimed that Jamal was an activist of the party. He said he might have been killed over political enmity and members of Jamaat-Shibir were involved in the killing.
Dhaka Tribune could not reach any Jamaat-Shibir leader over telephone after repeated attempts at the time of filing the report.
Local sources said the killing might be the consequence of local AL’s factional conflict while the OC said that they were looking into the matter.