 A student leader was shot dead and another was seriously injured in a shootout yesterday, sources said. Unidentified gunmen fatally shot Ariful Islam, a leader of the student wing of Bangladesh’s ruling party. Arif led the student wing of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party at Suhrawardy College in the capital, Dhaka, where he was killed. Another member of the group, Shakil Ahmed Faisal, was seriously injured in the shooting. Arif was fired upon by a group of six gunmen on motorbikes, who then fled the scene. Police arrived at the college, but have so far made no arrests. |