Bangladeshi businessman shot dead in US
A 47-year-old Bangladeshi businessman was gunned down by an unidentified assailant in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States on Wednesday, UNB reports.
Abu Saleh Mohammad Mahfuz Ahmed was from Noakhali and lived in Atlanta with his father Abu Taher, wife Mahmuda Begum, son Faruz Ahmed (4) and daughter Faiza Mahfuz (9), the deceased’s younger brother Masum Ahmed told UNB.
Saleh went to the USA about 12 years ago in search of a living after winning the Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery. He set up his own business in Georgia after working at a shop.
On Wednesday morning Bangladesh time, a man fired bullets at him inside his shop, killing Saleh on the spot, Tarek Hasan, a Bangladeshi who lives in Georgia, said.
Saleh’s father said he will be buried at a local cemetery after funeral prayers in the small hours of Friday (Bangladesh time).