An activist of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was shot dead by miscreants at Garib Ullahpara under Raujan upazila in Chattogram district early Sunday.
The deceased is Mohammad Manik Abdullah, 36, son of Abdul Motaleb of Bhandari Colony in the upazila.
Quoting witnesses, Mohammad Ali, sub-inspector of Raujan police station, said that a group of miscreants swooped on the house of Manik at about 1:30am and opened fire on him, leaving him dead on the spot.
On information, the police recovered the body and sent it to Chattogram Medical College and Hospital morgue for autopsy.
The assailants managed to flee the scene by an auto-rickshaw and motorbikes.