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Vol. 5 Num 864 Thu. November 02, 2006  
   
Metropolitan


College student shot dead in city


A college student was gunned down in front of a restaurant at Elephant Road in the city last night.

The victim was identified as Rakib Hasan, 23, a student of Tejgaon College and resident of Jahuri Mahalla at Mohammadpur in the city.

Rakib went out of his house after receiving a call from an unidentified caller at 7:30pm, his younger brother Nishan said.

New Market police rushed Rakib to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition where doctors declared him dead.

Police said the miscreants shot him point-blank in the head.