A gang of four pumped two bullets into the head of Anwar Hossain, a sanitary trader, near his Swamibagh home in Sutrapur at 1:00pm yesterday when he was going to work, his family said.

"As Anwar reached the end of Swamibagh Lane, the gang opened fire," the victim's younger brother Mohammad Hanif told reporters at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

The gang including Kamal pushed his wounded brother onto a nearby drain and fled the scene, he alleged.

Relatives rushed the victim to the DMCH where doctors declared him dead.

Hanif alleged the same group shot and injured the victim's younger brother Ali Hossain at Koratitola in January. They demanded Tk 15,000 from Anwar 10 days ago, but Anwar refused to pay them, he added.

The victim's father Abdul Halim filed a case with Sutrapur Police Station and said in the FIR (first information report) his son was killed over enmity.

In another incident on Tuesday, armed assailants shot dead Amanullah Khan, a trader, at Saruliah cattle market in Demra.

Quoting locals, police said a gang called the 35-year-old out of home shortly before 11:00am and gunned him down, police added.

Demra police recovered the body and sent it to Mitford hospital for autopsy.

The victim's wife filed a case with Demra Police Station, but police failed to nab anyone over the killing until 6:30pm.

BODY FOUND
Police recovered the body of Kamrul Ehsan Johnny, an SSC examinee, from Balurmath in Mirpur after locals found it covered in sand.

The family said the 18-year-old went missing on Monday. The victim's father filed a general diary, but the motive for the killing could not be known immediately.