Chittagong, June 5 (UNB)-Unidentified miscreants gunned down wife of a superintendent of police in GEC intersection area under Panchlaish thana of the city on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Mahmuda Khanam, 33, wife of Babul Akhter. Babul was in Dhaka as he was promoted as police super just last month. Earlier, he was additional deputy commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police. Mohiuddin Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Panchlaish Police Station, said a gang of miscreants numbering three riding a motorcycle hit Mahmuda by the bike as she had been there to get her son Mahir Akhter into a bus of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College around 7.15am. After being hit, she fallen down. Later the miscreants opened fire on her, which left her dead on the spot. The OC added there might be militant link in the incident as Babul had an important role in crackdown on religious terrorism.
