Gunmen shot dead a Muslim community leader in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu on Monday, police said, sparking angry protests by supporters and grieving relatives. Faizan Ahamad Ansari, 36, general secretary of the Islamic Association, an organisation promoting education among Muslims, was gunned down in the street by two raincoat-clad assassins, police said.
“He was rushed to the Bir Hospital but was declared dead by the doctors,” police spokesman Binod Singh told AFP. “He had injuries to his head, neck and chest.” Ansari had just been praying in a mosque opposite the city’s main police station when the gunmen struck. Kathmandu metropolitan police chief Kuber Singh Rana said two assassins in their 30s fled the scene immediately after one had pulled out a gun concealed in his coat and opened fire in the pouring rain. “We have mobilised police teams in search of those two,” he said.