The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

A restaurant owner and local community leader was shot dead by gun-trotting goons in the capital's Shyampur area on Wednesday morning.

Witnesses said three to four gunmen raided Toma Hotel and Restaurant at Mojaheed Nagar under Shyampur police station at about 9:30 am while its owner Farid Uddin Sarker, 45, was taking his breakfast.

"They shot at him pointblank and fled," says a spot account of the gun attack.

Farid, also president of DND Embankment Unnayan Nagorik Forum, was hit by six bullets in the chest and two hands.

The victim was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.

Local people said Farid helped Rapid Action Battalion personnel in arresting a drug peddler with 1700 bottles of phensidyl recently. It might be a reason for the killing, local people suspected.