Italian shot dead at Dhaka’s Gulshan was being followed by assailants: Witness

The assailants tailed the Italian national before they gunned him down at Gulshan diplomatic zone in Dhaka, a witness says.

Detective Branch Additional Deputy Commissioner Mahfuzur Rahman said Cesare Tavella was shot dead at Road 90, Gulshan-2 at around 7pm on Monday.

Tavella was the project manager of NGO ICCO Cooperation’s Profitable Opportunities for Food Security (PROOFS) programme.

A witness, former army sergeant Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain, told bdnews24.com that he helped take Tavella to the United Hospital after he was fatally wounded.

He said the foreigner was walking past the street near the High Commission of Pakistan and Bangladesh Bank governor’s residence wearing t-shirt and three-quarter pants.

Hossain, an area inspector of Integrated Security Services, said he saw two persons walking behind the victim.

“Probably they were following him. Another person stood at one end of the Road 83 parking his motorcycle in front of the German Development Cooperation Building,” he said.

</div>  </p><p>“I could not identify them as the streetlamps were off. One of the two persons behind him shot him after sometime.</p><p>“I heard three gunshots,” he added.</p><p>Hossain said it did not appear to be a mugging case.</p><p>“It is possibly a planned incident. Because, if it was a mugging they would have taken away his belongings. But they didn’t do it. Everything, including his mobile phone, was left behind,” he added.</p>