17-Year-Old Maruf Shot Dead by Attackers in Dhaka's Jatrabari Dhalpur Area

A young man named Maruf Hossain Dukhu, 17, was shot dead by attackers in the Dhalpur area of Jatrabari in the capital. The incident took place on Tuesday evening.

Jatrabari police station said the deceased Maruf was the son of the late Abdur Rashid of the Dhalpur area. He was the youngest among three brothers and one sister.

The deceased's wife Mim said Maruf worked at an aluminium pot factory in a lane beside Malanch Centre in Saydabad. After returning home from work in the evening, he went to the Dhalpur City Palli field, where attackers opened fire on him.

Maruf was taken in a critically injured condition to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

Mim said: 'My husband was a very good person, he was not involved in any conflict or trouble with anyone. I cannot understand who shot him and why.'

Md Habibur Rahman, in-charge of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital police camp, said the young man was brought to the hospital dead. His body is currently kept at the hospital emergency department morgue. The matter was immediately informed to Jatrabari police station and an investigation into the incident has begun.