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BD nat’l shot dead in KSA

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 12 December 2014

UNB, Dhaka :
A Bangladesh national, working at a mosque near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was shot to death on December 7 last for failing to make prayer call timely.
The victim was identified as Mohammed Rafiqul Islam, 32, son of Tajul Islam, hailing from Ashuganj in Brahmanbaria district, Mizanur Rahman, second secretary (labour wing) at Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh told UNB over phone on Wednesday. He said the deceased had been working at the mosque for some time and his sponsor (Kofil) killed him for his delay in making the prayer call.
The Embassy’s legal team is doing the paperwork for the deceased and had informed his family about the tragedy.
The incident took place at 3:30 pm during Asr prayers in a mosque in Ortawwiyah in the Majmaah district, 30 km from the Riyadh city center when a Saudi muezzin opened fire at two expatriate workers in a mosque here, killing one and injuring the other, reports local media quoting police.
When police arrived at the scene, in response to a call from a citizen, they found Mohammed Rafiqul Islam, 32, a Bangladeshi worker, in a pool of blood.
The other worker, an Indian, was alive with two gunshot wounds. He is undergoing treatment at King Khaled Hospital in Majmaah. The police have not released the Indian’s name and said he is out of danger.
Sources from the Ortawwiyah area said the Bangladeshi used to make the call for prayer for the muezzin. On the day of the incident, the worker had failed to make the call on time, which infuriated the muezzin, they claimed.
The police arrested the murder accused. According to the police, the perpetrator is a psychiatric patient at a nearby hospital. However, investigations are continuing.