The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

A businessman was shot dead by unidentified miscreants, in the city yesterday morning.

The dead Ashiq, 50, was the son of Lalu Mollah and also one of owners of the Anwar Residential Hotel in Syedabad.

Witnesses said the assailants opened fire on Ashiq, when he was coming to his hotel at about 9:30am, leaving him critically injured.

He was rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctors declared him dead. Police suspected that he might have been killed following previous enmity.

A case was filed in this connection.