Police Super (SP) Babul Akter’s wife was shot dead by unidentified miscreants  in Chittagong this morning.

The deceased was identified as Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, 33, wife of Babul Akhter.

Mohiuddin Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Panchlaish Police Station, said a gang of miscreants numbering three riding a motorcycle hit Mahmuda by the bike as she had been there to get her son Mahir Akhter into a bus of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College around 7.15am.

After being hit, she fallen down. Later the miscreants opened fire on her, which left her dead on the spot.

The victim’s husband Babul Akter, who served as additional deputy commissioner of detective branch of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) earlier, got promotion as superintendent of police recently and was posted at police headquarters in Dhaka, sources said.