Dhaka – Unidentified miscreants gunned down the wife of a superintendent of police of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) at the port city’s GEC intersection on Sunday morning, Unb news agency reported.The deceased was identified as Mahmuda Khanam, 33, wife of Babul Akhter, a resident of Nasirabad Housing area.
Babul who was promoted as police super just last month was in Dhaka. Earlier, he was CMP’s additional deputy commissioner.
Mohiuddin Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Panchlaish Police Station, said a gang of three miscreants riding a motorcycle hit Mahmuda with their bike as she had been there to get her son, Mahir Akhter, into a bus of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College around 7.15am.
As Mahmuda fell being hit by the bike, the gunmen opened fire on her, leaving her dead on the spot.
There might be a militant link in the incident as Babul had an important role in a crackdown on religious terrorism, the OC added.
