The New Nation - Internet Edition

RAB members on patrol in front of Western Garden, a
residential hotel, at Karwan Bazar in the city after the gun
attack at the hotel yesterday. NN photo

UNB, Dhaka

Six people were critically injured in a gun attack on a hotel in the city's Karwan Bazar area on Sunday morning.

Police said gunmen, numbering 8-10, stormed into the hotel, Western Garden, at about 11.25 am and started spraying bullets indiscriminately, leaving four of its staff injured.

As local people rushed to the hotel hearing the gunshots, the terrorists opened fire on them too and fled the scene. Two garment factory workers, passing by the area during the gun attack, also suffered bullet wounds.

The injured hotel men were identified as manager Abdul Hakim, 37, boys Suman, 23, and Faruk, 26, and security guard M Babul, 42. The injured pedestrians are garment factory workers M Alam, 22, and Saidul Islam, 25.

The injured were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Police suspected that the gunmen made the attack as their demand for toll went unheeded.