The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

A BNP leader was gunned down in the capital's posh Dhanmondi area yesterday afternoon, 20 days after his release from jail on bail.

The killing of Mostafa Zaman Shibli, general secretary of the Ward No-48 unit of the immediate-past ruling party, took place in a latest spurt in criminal acts in and around the capital city.

Shibli, son of Nuruzzaman of Jigatola area, came out of his residence responding to a mobile-phone call at about 6:15pm, said Sufian, a relative of the victim.

"As he reached Dhanmondi Road no 7/A, some 100 yards off his residence, gunmen sprayed bullets targeting Shibli and fled the scene," Sufian added.

He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the on-duty doctor declared him dead.

Shibli was released on bail from Dhaka Central Jail 20 days back. He was arrested in connection with the Dhaka University student unrest in August last year, which also landed four DU teachers and some students in jail.

Motives behind the killing could not be ascertained immediately.

A day before, an Awami Swecchasebak League leader was shot dead in the city's Shajahanpur area in similar gun attack.