patna at a time when the new bihar government is facing a political backlash over the begusarai shootout a silk trader was gunned down in cold blood by unidentified assailants in bhagalpur late on wednesdaydespite the high alert in several districts after two bikeborne killers fired at people on two national highways killing one and wounding 11 the unidentified men landed in nathnagar under bhagalpur district in front of a shopbarely 400 metres away from nathnagar police station premises near kv lal road the killers accosted mohammad afzal 38 as he was returning home after closing his uncles shop around 945 pm afzal received four bullet injuries and he died on his way to the hospitalhearing gunshots relatives of afzal and people present in an adjacent office rushed to the spot and found him lying in a pool of blood he was taken to the jawaharlal nehru medical college hospital in mayaganj but he died on the waybhagalpur ssp babu ram reached the spot and started investigations several empty shells have been found from the spot and the victim sustained four bullet injuries he was declared brought dead by the doctors he said the ssp added the assailants came with the motive to murder the person the police are probing the incident and the footage from cctv cameras of the surrounding areas is being scrutinizedlocals informed that the assailants fired around six to seven bullets at afzalas soon as he mounted his bike to park it near his house which was close to the shop he was shot several times it was not clear how many assailants attacked the victim or whether they came on bike or foot there was no cctv camera where the incident took place we are scrutinizing the nearby cameras a police officer added