Two people, including a former local Awami League leader, were shot to death in the Shahjahanpur neighbourhood of Dhaka late on Thursday.
Victim Jahidul Islam Tipu, 55, was the former general secretary of the ruling party’s Motijheel unit.
Twenty-year-old Samia Afran Prity, who was a student of Begum Badrunnesa Govt Girls’ College, was travelling on a rickshaw when she was shot.
Monir Hossain Munna, the driver of Tipu’s car, told reporters that they were on their way home when some unidentified assailants opened fire on them, wounding both of them.
Meanwhile, Prity’s friend Sumaiya said they had gone out on an excursion and were going to Sumaiya’s home in Tilpara when they heard gunshots and suddenly Prity got shot as well.
Locals rushed them to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the doctors declared Tipu and Prity dead, said Deputy Commissioner Abdul Ahad of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Munna is undergoing treatment at the hospital’s emergency department.
