PM condemns attack on Trump

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has condemned the attack on former US president Donald Trump.

“Such an attack on a presidential candidate in a democratic country like the USA is very regrettable,” she said during a press conference at Ganabhaban in Dhaka on Sunday afternoon.

Donald Trump was hit in the ear in an assassination attempt by a gunman at a campaign rally Saturday, in a chaotic and shocking incident set to supercharge political tensions ahead of the polarising US presidential election, reports AFP.

The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage with blood streaked across his face after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, while the shooter and a bystander were killed and two spectators critically injured.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has identified the gunman, who was shot dead, as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, according to a statement cited by US media early Sunday. His motive remains unknown.

The FBI confirmed in a press conference that the shooting was being treated as "an assassination attempt against our former president, Donald Trump."