The mystery behind Awami League leader Zahidul Islam Tipu murder will be known soon, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.

"We will soon be able to know the names of the masterminds behind the killing," he said after placing wreath at the Liberation War Memorial on Rajarbagh Police Lines premises in Dhaka on Saturday. The Home Minister also declined to comment on speculations of the assassination being a politically motivated one. Replying to a query, he said, "We don't want to draw any conclusions right now."

Zahidul Islam Tipu, former general secretary of Awami League's Motijheel Thana committee, and Samia Afrin Pritee, a 22-year-old student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College in Dhaka, were killed when an assailant opened fire at them in the near Khilgaon Rail Crossing on Thursday (March 24) night.

The assailant sprayed 12 rounds of bullets  within just 20 seconds on the road amid huge traffic. The assailant sprayed bullets on Tipu and his microbus driver. Tipu was shot 6-7 times while the driver was shot twice.

The shots, fired in rapid succession, shattered the left side of the car window glasses before hitting  Tipu. He was shot in the throat, chest, abdomen, and on other parts of the body. At least, 10-12 bullets pierced Tipu's body. His driver Monir Hossain Munna, 34, also received bullet injuries but managed to survive.

At the same time, college student Samia Afrin Jamal Pritee who  was on a rickshaw on her way to a friend's house at Khilgaon was also shot at that time. The on-duty doctor of Dhaka Medical College Hospital pronounced Tipu and Pritee dead after they were taken to hospital.