Staff Reporter :A hotel businessman was shot dead in the capital’s Paikpara area on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Rafiqul Islam Junayed, 40, owner of a residential hotel in Mirpur area. He was son of Billal Bepari, resident of Uttar Tularbagh in Mirpur of the city.The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) morgue for an autopsy, police said.Quoting the locals, Darus Salam Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Selimuzzaman said that they recovered the body from a road near the Dakshin Bisil Kuwaiti Mosque at Paikpara Government Staff Quarter following information around 5:30am.He was shot on the left side of his chest, the police official said.”Junayed went to his Shah Jalal Restaurant at about 12:10am, but since then he had not returned.He might have been killed over business matter,” the OC said.”Police will be clear after getting the autopsy report. We are looking for the report,” the police official said.A case has been filed with the police station in this connection, the OC said.
