A 55-year-old man was shot dead by miscreants at Nastipur village in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga district early Wednesday.
The deceased was identified as Hazrat Ali, son of Rois Uddin of the village.
AHM Lutful Kabir, officer-in-charge of Darshana Police Station, said miscreants shot Ali, a farmer, at his head through the window of his house in his sleep at the dead of night.
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Hearing the sound of the gunshot, the family members woke up and found Ali lying in a pool of blood. He was taken to a local hospital where doctors declared him dead around 3 am.
Ali’s family said he used to work as a source of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB.