A Bangladeshi national has been gunned down by unidentified miscreants in South Africa.
The incident occurred at Lenasia, a township under the Johannesburg metropolitan municipality area, on Apr 23, reports the Dhaka Tribune.
The deceased has been identified as 30-year-old Firoz alias Shimul, son of Humayun Kabir, from Banail village in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail.
According to the victim's family, Shimul had been running a cosmetics business in a rented shop in Lenasia for the past 10 years. On Apr 23, a group of miscreants shot him and stole around Tk 600,000 from him while he was going to a bank in a private car. Bystanders rushed him to a local hospital, where doctor declared him dead on arrival.
Shimul's body arrived at his home town on Friday (Apr 26) morning, said the victim's elder brother Sabuj Mia.
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