Two shot outside Pongu Hospital, one arrested

Two people were shot in front of the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR), popularly known as Pongu Hospital, in Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Thursday, police said. 

Their identities were not immediately known. 

Police arrested a youth identified as Rony Sheikh Rubel, who was found with a pistol at the scene, according to Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mozammel Haq. Two others, Akash and Rakibul, fled. 

Rony told police during initial questioning that he owns a fruit shop in front of the hospital. Efforts are on to apprehend the others involved in the incident, Haq added.