A 35-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by a group of drug peddlers in the district’s Hakimpur upazila on Friday night.
The deceased was identified as Bardin Islam Baten, a construction worker and son of Abu Taleb of Mathpara village.
Shariqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Hakimpur Police Station, said that Baten’s younger brother Insan had been at loggerheads with a local drug peddler, Imon, over sharing profits from drug sales.
On Friday morning, Baten intervened and apparently ensured a patch-up between Insan and Imon.
The same night, Imon along with his two associates, waylaid Baten on a bike and stabbed him indiscriminately, leaving him injured. “He was taken to a local hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival,” said the OC.
“Police are trying to arrest the culprits,” he added.
Source: United News of Bangladesh