Desa security man shot dead
Staff Correspondent
A security supervisor of Dhaka Electric Supply Authority (Desa) was shot dead by a gang of armed criminals yesterday night at Nilkhet in the capital. The dead Mohammad Shahjalal Uddin, 35, a security supervisor of Desa at Kotowali, was also a caretaker of Nilkhet Mariam Jame Mashjid. Sources said criminals on two motorbikes sprayed bullets on Shahjalal at around 7:30pm in front of Nilkhet residential quarters while he was returning to his residence on Hoseni Dalan Road in Lalbagh. Locals rushed Shahjalal to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the on-duty doctors declared him dead. Hospital sources said they found four bullets in the victim's head, shoulder and chest. Family sources said Shahjalal received death threats from different people over allotments of 22 shops set up outside the Jam-e-Masjid area.
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