Family sources said a gunman shot Ranjit Kumar Majumder Rony in his abdomen in front of Purba Nayatola Mosque at about 8:00pm, injuring him fatally.

On receiving a call, Rony's brother Jewel Majumder rushed to the scene and took him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where doctors pronounced him dead at 8:45pm.

Jewel claimed Rony told him before death that Ashraful Alam Jony shot him, but could not give the motive for the attack.

At Nakhalpara, four youths pulled down Harun Molla, 21, from his rickshaw in front of Chhapra Mosque at 1:00pm. One of them, stabbed Harun, an employee of the Super Cable Network at Green Market in Farmgate, in the head and abdomen before fleeing the scene.

His friend Sujan, who was accompanying Harun, rushed him to DMCH where doctors pronounced him dead.

Sujan said they were going to meet a sorcerer at Nakhalpara in the hope to know who stole prepaid phone cards worth about Tk 40,000 from his shop at East Rajabazar on July 31.

"The attackers might be involved with theft at my shop," he said.

Unhappy conjugal life and torture by her husband Noki Hasan Jitu led to the death of 30-year-old housewife Roksana Akhter Mitu, alleged domestic helps.

The couple was staying in a rented house near Mouchak Market for the last 10 days.

"They quarrelled for a long time since 11:00pm on Wednesday night and at one point he (Jitu) beat her up," police quoted Rasheda, one of two domestic helps at the house, as saying yesterday.

"He (Jitu) woke us up from sleep in the early hours yesterday to tell Mitu has committed suicide by hanging herself with a scarf from the ceiling fan," Rasheda said, adding that they found the body lying on the floor with a scarf tied around her neck.

The husband took the body to the National Heart Institute where doctors declared her dead. Police then took Mitu's body to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) morgue for autopsy.

Morgue sources said old and fresh injury marks were seen on Mitu's head and face, adding that she died of suffocation.

The domestic helps told the police the couple used to quarrel almost every day and the husband, who returned home from abroad recently, beat her up often. Ramna police arrested the husband and picked up the two maids for interrogation.