The dead is Raihan Chowdhury, 22, owner of two restaurants and a residential hotel in Maghbazar. The injured Awlad Hossain Milton, 25, an employee of a television showroom in Mirpur, was taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

The unidentified criminals took Raihan and Awlad to a lane in Bara Maghbazar at 5:30pm. They locked the entrance to the lane and shot Raihan and Awlad point blank, killing Raihan, who received about seven bullets, on the spot.

Though received two bullets--one in the chest and in the hand--Awlad somehow survived.

"I woke up by the sounds of continuous firing from the lane beside my house. I could count them from 10 to 15," Shahinur Rahman, a resident of a house on the lane.

"Half-an-hour after Raihan left home we heard sounds of firing. As soon as we were informed by neighbours, we found him dead on the lane," said Yeasin Rana, elder brother of the deceased.

"Raihan along with one of his uncle went out of the house after some local called him at 5:00pm," he added.

Family sources of Awlad said they were forced to shift their residing place from Maghbazar to Pallabi four months ago following a feud with the local criminals. Faruk, cadre of local criminal gang named "Mukul Group", used to tease and disturb wife of Awlad that resulted in a feud between the gang and the family.

Awlad went to Maghbazar to draw money from tenants of their own building in the area.