Dhaka: Miscreants shot ruling Awami League lawmaker from Gaibandha-1 (Sundarganj) constituency Manjurul Islam Liton dead in a gun attack at Bamandanga village in Sundarganj upazila on Saturday.

Doctors declared the child-shooter MP dead at about 7:30pm, 15 minutes after he was rushed at the Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) with two bullet wounds in the chest from his home at Sundarganj.

Gaibandha police said two unidentified men shot Liton from a close proximity at his village home at Masterpara near Bamondanga railway station as they appeared at the scene mounting on a motorbike at about 6:00pm, saying they wanted to meet him.

As the unsuspecting MP from Gaibandha-1 constituency came to the guestroom to see them, the gunmen opened fire on him.

'Three assailants arrived at the yard of Liton's house where he was holding a meeting with some people . . . one of them fired two shots from a pistol,' Gaibandha's additional police super Abdullah Al-Faruk told BSS. 

He said the miscreants, however, fled the scene using the motorbike. 

Soon after the incident people at the neighbourhood particularly the Awami League activists staged protests blocking the railway line at Bamondanga station.

Liton hit headlines after shooting a minor boy, Sourav, 8, son of Sazu Miah of Gopalcharan village in the upazila, on October 2, 2015.