2 gunned down in Tongi

Police said two gunmen shot Shah Alam, 30, and another unidentified youth, aged about 26, while they were in a meeting at a roadside house at 5:00pm.

Shah Alam, son of Mohammad Ali of Boubazar in Tongi Municipality, was former general secretary of Tongi Govt College students union and incumbent vice-president of the Tongi unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal.

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Witnesses said the assailants shot three bullets in Alam's head and left the spot.

Locals with the help of police brought Shah Alam to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he was declared dead at 6:00pm.

Local Alam's rivals launched the attack and shot him point blank while he was holding a meeting to form a ward committee of the student wing of the ruling BNP.

The unidentified youth, who was also hit by bullet during the attack, died at Tongi Hospital soon after admission.

In a violent protest, the local activists of the ruling BNP and its student wing put barricades on the Dhaka-Gazipur Highway at mill gate at 8:45pm, halting traffic on the busy route.