An Italian aid worker living in Dhaka the Bangladeshi capital, has died after he was shot in an apparent “planned murder”.
Tavella Cesare, 50, was shot three times while jogging at the Gulshan diplomatic zone on Monday night.
A witness told Al Jazeera that he took Cesare to a local hospital, where the victim was pronounced dead.
“It appears to be a planned murder,” Asaduzzaman Khan, Bangladeshi home minister, told the Samakal newspaper.
“Police will also look into whether it was a part of any conspiracy to destabilise Bangladesh.”
Nothing was taken from the victim and police ruled out robbery as a motive.
Mokhlesur Rahman, Dhaka police Inspector General (IG), told Al Jazeera that investigators are searching to see if any closed-circuit television cameras captured the incident.
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