Unidentified armed assailants have shot a trader dead in Shewrapara area of Dhaka.

Anisur Rahman, 40, a construction material supplier, was shot in his head and hand around 9:00pm yesterday in front of a drug store in the area, Jashim Uddin, deputy commission (Mirpur division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), told The Daily Star.

“Two masked assailants shot Anisur from a close range leaving him critically injured,” he said.

Anisur was a resident of West Shewrapara, the ADC said.

He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) around 10:30pm but later shifted to a private clinic in Shyamoli where he succumbed to his injuries around 1:30am, the police official added.

His body was kept at the DMCH morgue.

The motive behind the murder is still unknown and police were investigating into the incident, Jashim Uddin also said.