Bangladesh Awami Sechchha Sebok League (BASL) leader was shot dead by a gang of unidentified miscreants in the city’s Kadomtoli area on Wednesday evening. The deceased has been identified as Riazul Islam Lalu, 35, President of Kadomtoli Union Parishad, BASL, police said. Quoting the locals, Kadomtoli Police Station’s Office-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Abdul Salam Mir confirmed the matter andsaid that three to four armed miscreants came to Lalus’s sand-bricks shop adjacent to the Ansar Camp Bridge in the area around 7:30pm and fired several rounds of bullets targetingt Lalu. Three bullets pierced through his chest and miscreants managed to flee the spot.The locals took him to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where the on-duty doctors declared him dead, said the OC. The DMCH Police Outpost In-charge Mozammel Haque said that the body had been sent to the Morgue for autopsy.
