A journalist was shot dead by unidentified assailants while sitting at a shop in Netrokona’s Durgapur upazila on Thursday night.
The victim, Lutfuzzaman Alif Fakir, was the Netrokona correspondent for private IPTV channel Ruposhi Bangla. He also ran a Facebook page titled “Detective Article”, where he wrote about alleged irregularities and crimes.
The attack took place around 8:15pm at Utrail Bazar on the Shyamganj-Birishiri Road in Kolmakanda municipality.
According to eyewitnesses and police, Alif was sitting at a shop when two men arrived on a motorcycle and fired several shots at him before fleeing the scene.
Locals rushed him to the upazila health complex, where an on-duty doctor declared him dead.
Durgapur Police Station Officer-in-Charge Khandkar Shaker Ahmed Khan said five bullet wounds were found on different parts of Alif’s body, including his head, neck and chest.
Netrokona Superintendent of Police Md Tarikul Islam, who was heading to the scene after learning of the killing, said that police initially suspected it was a planned murder.
Police were conducting operations to arrest those involved, he added.
Alif’s ancestral home is in Sunai village of Pogla union in Kolmakanda upazila.
He had previously been attacked on November 10 last year near the Teribazar ferry ghat on the Someshwari River in the same upazila.
Assailants had hacked him, while a colleague who tried to intervene was threatened with a weapon and chased away.
