Narail: A Union Council (UC) chairman was gunned down by miscreants at his Gazirhat home in Kalia upazila of Narail early on Friday.

The miscreants fired gunshots at Nayeem Hossian Mollah, in his fifties, chairman of Hamidpur Union Parishad, around 4:00am while he was asleep at his home, leaving him critically injured, said officer-in-charge of Kalia Police Station Mohammad Shamser quoting his family members.

Nayeem was taken to Khulna Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.