Gunmen stormed into the house of a businessman in the city’s Mirpur area on Saturday afternoon and gunned him down. The victim was identified as Jafrul Haque Mokhtar, 55, a real estate businessman who hailed from Kalurchar village in Shibchar upazila of Madaripur district. Witnesses said the two gunmen who came in a motorbike entered the house of Mokhtar at Mirpur-section 6 around 12:30 pm and sprayed him with bullets from a close range, leaving him seriously injured. He was rushed to Mirpur Heart Foundation and then moved to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead at
about 2:00 pm. The gunmen fled the scene soon after the incident. – UNB
