Gulshan Zone Assistant Deputy Commissioner Abdul Ahad told bdnews24.com that the incident took place at Road 90, Gulshan-2 on Monday evening.

Cesare Tavella, aged around 50, died at Gulshan’s United Hospital.

He was followed by the assailants who shot him three times while on his evening walk, a witness said.

Former army sergeant Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain told bdnews24.com that he took Tavella to the United Hospital after he was fatally wounded.

He said the foreigner was walking past the street near the High Commission of Pakistan and Bangladesh Bank governor’s residence wearing a t-shirt and three-quarter pants.

Hossain, an area inspector of Integrated Security Services, said he saw two persons walking behind Tavella.

“Probably they were following him. Another person stood at one end of the Road 83 parking his motorcycle in front of the German Development Cooperation Building,” he said.

“I could not identify them as the street lamps were off. One of the two persons behind him shot him after sometime.

“I heard three gunshots,” he added.

Hossain said it did not appear to be a mugging case.

“It is possibly a planned incident. Because, if it was a mugging, they would have taken away his belongings. But they didn’t do so. Everything, including his mobile phone, was left behind,” he added.