Dhaka: Italian national Cesare Tavella, killed in capital’s Gulshan area on Monday evening, was shot from behind while he was walking, said a forensic expert on Tuesday.

Head of the Forensic Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Professor Dr Kazi Md Abu Shama, who conducted autopsy on the body of the Italian at the DMCH morgue on Tuesday afternoon, said he was hit by three bullets.

‘Two of the bullets pierced through the body while the rest was found inside his chest,’ he said.

Professor Dr Shama also said, ‘After examining the injuries, it seemed to me the criminals attacked him from his left side and behind while he was walking.’

Miscreants fired bullets on Cesare Tavella, 50, Project Manager for PROOFS (Profitable Opportunities for Food Security) of the Netherlands-based non-governmental organisation ‘ICCO Cooperation’, at Road-90 of Gulshan-2, some 500 metres off Gulshan Police Station, around 6:15pm on Monday. He died while being moved to nearby United Hospitals.

 On completion of the postmortem, the body has been kept at the DMCH mortuary.