Police officer Babul Aktar’s wife shot dead near home in Chittagong

The wife of a police officer, who had led several raids against militants in Chittagong, has been shot dead near her home in the port city.

Police said motorcycle-borne assailants shot the woman around 6:45am on Sunday at the OR Nizam Road near the GEC intersection, which left her dead on the spot.

 

The victim, ‘Mahmuda’, was married to Superintendent of Police Babul Aktar, who is now posted at the police headquarters in Dhaka.

 

Aktar had led several raids against militants while being an additional deputy commissioner with the Detective Branch in Chittagong. 

 

He was promoted recently and transferred to the headquarters.

 

Quoting witnesses, Chittagong metro police’s Deputy Commissioner Paritosh Ghose said that three men riding on a motorcycle shot Mahmuda on the head. 

 

Police said that she was on her way to drop off her first-grader son to a bus stop for school.