Staff Reporter :
A college student was stabbed to death by a group of youths in Uttarkhan area of Dhaka on Thursday night.
The incident took place in Rajabari Christian Para about 8:30pm following a quarrel over a trifling matter, police and family members said. Victim Md Sohag, 20, is a HSC second year student of Uttara Public College and younger of the five siblings, who died in a hospital.
Sohag’s brother Sagor said that his brother was standing in an alley when mud splashed from a rickshaw wheels hit some seven to eight youths, who were gossiping nearby.
The youths aged between 20 to 25 years soon started beating the rickshaw-puller prompting Sohag to protest.
It enraged the youths, who attacked him and stabbed him at one stage.
Locals rescued him and rushed to Uttara Northern Hospital, where on-duty doctors declared him dead.
Sagor said that his brother had no animosity with the group and could identify only one Hridoy, a local boy, among the attackers. Sagor filed a case against Hridoy and 7-8 unidentified youths.
Police said that they were yet to confirm whether it was an incident of gang rivalry.
Uttarkhan police station officer-in-charge Helal Uddin said the accused were on the run since the incident and drives have continued for their arrest. He suspected that the incident might have happened in the heat of the moment and no previous animosity involved.
A college student was stabbed to death by a group of youths in Uttarkhan area of Dhaka on Thursday night.
The incident took place in Rajabari Christian Para about 8:30pm following a quarrel over a trifling matter, police and family members said. Victim Md Sohag, 20, is a HSC second year student of Uttara Public College and younger of the five siblings, who died in a hospital.
Sohag’s brother Sagor said that his brother was standing in an alley when mud splashed from a rickshaw wheels hit some seven to eight youths, who were gossiping nearby.
The youths aged between 20 to 25 years soon started beating the rickshaw-puller prompting Sohag to protest.
It enraged the youths, who attacked him and stabbed him at one stage.
Locals rescued him and rushed to Uttara Northern Hospital, where on-duty doctors declared him dead.
Sagor said that his brother had no animosity with the group and could identify only one Hridoy, a local boy, among the attackers. Sagor filed a case against Hridoy and 7-8 unidentified youths.
Police said that they were yet to confirm whether it was an incident of gang rivalry.
Uttarkhan police station officer-in-charge Helal Uddin said the accused were on the run since the incident and drives have continued for their arrest. He suspected that the incident might have happened in the heat of the moment and no previous animosity involved.
