Unknown assailants shoot dead foreigner at Dhaka’s Gulshan diplomatic zone

Unknown assailants have shot and killed a foreigner at Gulshan diplomatic zone in Dhaka, police say. Gulshan Zone Assistant Deputy Commissioner Abdul Ahad told bdnews24.com that the incident took place at Road 90, Gulshan-2 on Monday evening. An official at Gulshan’s United Hospital said the victim, in his 50s, was identified as Cesare Tavella. His nationality could not be confirmed immediately. A witness, former army sergeant Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain, said the foreigner wearing t-shirt and three-quarter pants was walking past Road 90 near the High Commission of Pakistan and Bangladesh Bank governor’s residence. Hossain, an area inspector of Integrated Security Services, said he saw two persons walking behind the victim. “Probably they were following him. Another person stood at one end of the Road 83 parking his motorcycle,” he said. “I could not identify them as the streetlamps were off. One of the two persons behind him shot him after sometime. “I heard three gunshots,” he added. The German Development Cooperation Building is situated at Road 83. Hossain said it did not appear to be a mugging case. “It is possibly a planned incident. Because, if it was a mugging they would have taken away his belongings. But they didn’t do it,” he added. –bdnews24.com