Injured fish trader dies at DMCH
Shops closed for three hours after police club agitating traders
Staff Correspondent
A fish trader died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday, 12 hours after armed assailants killed his landlord in an attack which also left three others including him wounded at a kitchen market at Ahmed Nagar in Mirpur on Wednesday night.Ameer Hossain, a fish trader and a tenant of Sikder Market owner Rashid Sikder, died at about 8:00am, sources said. Earlier, Rashid, also the president of a local unit of BNP, died soon after an armed gang sprayed bullets on him apparently over land dispute. Buyers Narayan and Zunayed, who also suffered bullet wounds during in the attack, were undergoing treatment at the DMCH, sources added. Meanwhile, local traders and shop owners in Ahmed Nagar area kept their shutters down for about three hours in the afternoon after police chased their procession in protest of the killings, locals said. The demonstrators pelted brickbats at police after police clubbed them, they added. Rashid's son Mujibur Rahman lodged a case with Mirpur Police Station late Wednesday accusing 11 people including Rahmat, Rabi, Jasim and Baten. Mirpur police held one Nurul suspecting his involvement in the killing. Locals said Rashid had a long dispute with Rahmat over the ownership of the 52-katha market land, which houses 60 shops.
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