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Bangladeshi shot dead in South Africa


Published : 03 Jun 2019 09:15 PM | Updated : 31 Aug 2020 05:34 PM

A Bangladeshi youth was gunned down by ‘robbers’ at East Ran Diepsloot of Johannesburg in South Africa on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Shahadat Hossain, 24, son of Estefaz Uddin of Borhatia union under Lohagara upazila. Mohammad Rubel, elder brother of Shahadat, said a gang of armed robbers looted valuables from a shop at 6pm and shot Shahadat while leaving the shop, leaving him injured.

Rubel and other Bangladeshis there took the victim to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. Shahadat went to South Africa in January this year, said his family sources. There have been several recent reports of Bangladeshi businessmen being gunned down by unknown miscreants in South Africa: Joynal Abedin of Tangail, Rezaul Karim of Feni, Shahjahan Saju of Cumilla and Firoz alias Shimul of Tangail have all been killed in the last couple of months.