Unidentified assailants shot dead a businessman named Sohag Sheikh, 42, in Mollahat upazila of Bagerhat on Saturday night.
The incident took place around 10:30pm at the Mollahat Upazila Sadar Bazar.
Sohag Sheikh was the son of Daud Sheikh of Udaypur village in Mollahat upazila. He owned a corrugated tin shop at Mollahat Bazar.
Local sources said Sohag closed his shop at the market and was returning home on a motorcycle at night.
When he reached a road in front of a betel leaf shop on the western side of the market, unidentified miscreants opened fire at him. Locals rescued him and rushed him to the Mollahat Upazila Health Complex, where doctors declared him dead.
Rajib Kumar Pal, a doctor in the emergency department of the health complex, said “Sohag Sheikh was brought to the hospital already dead.”
Officer-in-Charge of Mollahat Police Station Kazi Ramjanul Haque said two men arrived on a motorcycle and shot Sohag Sheikh. Police believe three bullets hit his body.
“His body now remained at the Mollahat Upazila Health Complex. We will provide further details after completing the inquest report” he said.
Earlier on the night of 7 March, locals rescued a young man named Nur Islam, 27, with bullet injuries from beside the Dhaka–Khulna highway in the Kahalpur Paschimpara area of Mollahat upazila.
They first took him to the Mollahat Upazila Health Complex and later sent him to Khulna and then to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for advanced treatment.
Nur Islam worked as a sales representative at a sanitary and hardware shop named Sheikh Traders at Mollahat Upazila Sadar.
