A Bangladeshi man, the third in four months, has been killed by local assailants in South Africa.
Parvez Sardar, who hailed from Shariatpur, was killed at his workplace in Cape Town, according to his family in Shariatpur and Bangladesh expatriates in South Africa.
The 28-year-old, who worked as a salesman at a shop, was shot dead on Friday (Apr 19) allegedly by a gang of extortionists.
“Cape Town was a relatively peaceful place in South Africa. On Mar 2, my uncle Zahir was hacked to death and on Friday, my nephew Parvez was shot dead. South Africa is gradually becoming unsafe for Bangladeshis,” said the victim’s uncle Suman Ahmed, a Bangladesh expatriate in Cape Town.
According to him, a gang of local extortionists, demanded money from Parvez a few days ago. On Friday, the gang of local black population shot him at the shop when he refused to give money.
Parvez migrated to South Africa in December 2017 in search of a better livelihood, said family members in Shariatpur.
On Jan 23 this year, Mohin Uddin, who hailed from Feni, was shot dead inside a shop by extortionists.
The 40-year-old ran his own shop in the country's North-West Province’s Rustenburg.
According to the South African government, over two million foreign nationals currently live in the country.
Around 95,000 of the country’s foreign population are Bangladeshis. Most of them grocery and electronics stores while are in the restaurant business.
South Africa is gradually turning unsafe for expatriates as reports of robbery, abduction and murder of migrants are recurrent.
In 2018, nearly a hundred expatriates, including a large number of Bangladeshis, have died in attacks by local assailants.
(Bangla Tribune’s Shariatpur Correspondent Monir Hossain provided inputs for this report)