In Gulshan, unidentified assailants gunned down a bus driver at Baubazar slum of Kuril Monday night.

Al-Amin, 30, a driver on the Mirpur route, left his East Kazipara, Kafrul residence at around 3:00pm on Monday after taking his meal but did not return, according to the victim's wife Mukta Begum. Patrol police recovered his bullet-riddled body from the slum at 11:00pm.

Police found a telephone index in Al-Amin's wallet and made phone call to one of his neighbours at midnight.

On being informed of the phone call the victim's brother Mohammad Sohel and wife Mukta went to identify the body.

The body received two bullets in the forehead, two in the shoulder, one each in the back and the stomach.

Police are yet to identify the killers or unearth the reason behind the murder.

Al-Amin left behind a four-year-old daughter Lima, wife, two brothers and as many sisters.

Meanwhile, in another incident a rent-a-car driver was strangled at Mirpur on Monday night.

Mirpur police recovered the body of the driver, Shafiqul Islam, 32, from a market at 11:00pm. The inquest said that there were marks of injuries in the head and he might have been strangulated to death.

Shafiqul was employed as a taxi driver with SA rent-a-car, a car rental company, for ten years and was murdered while on a trip carrying passengers.

One Sabuj, aged about 28, rented the microbus for the trip in which Shafiqul was killed.

Sabuj came to the car rental service at College Road at 3:00pm, rented a microbus and paid Tk 500 as advance of the rent of Tk 1100, said Mohammed Hasan, manager of the car rental service.

"He hired the vehicle to attend a marriage ceremony at Aamtali, Savar and asked to pick up passengers from 4/A Confidence Tower lane, Katashur, in the evening," Hasan added.

Hasan gave Shafiqul, a trusted driver of the company, a grey microbus (Dhaka Metro Cha-51-2360) at around 6:30pm.

Police recovered the body of Shafiqul from the old cattle market at Mirpur Mazar Road. The victim's neck bore marks nylon rope. His hands were tied at the back and marks of injuries were also found in the head.

Police mounted a search in Katasur but could not find anyone by the name of Sabuj, they said.

Separate cases have been filed with the police stations.