Unidentified miscreants have stabbed to death a local Awami League leader in capital Dhaka.
Published : 07 Nov 2013, 06:33 PM
Quoting witnesses, police said Demra Awami League unit Organising Secretary Khairul Molla was attacked at Motijheel around 6:30pm on Thursday.
Dhaka Medical College and Hospital Police Outpost Inspector Mozammel Haque told bdnews24.com that doctors declared Molla dead around 7pm.
Some youths had rushed him to the hospital’s emergency wing with severe injuries.
Quoting the youths, he said Molla was at Motijheel to attend a meeting at the Cooperative Bank. He was attacked and stabbed on the bank’s first floor.
The youths, however, had said that Molla was shot, but the doctors said his body bore only stab wounds, said Inspector Haque.
Molla was also the General Secretary of the Sayedabad Transport Owners Association, he added.
The motives behind the murder were not immediately known.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Motijheel zone Deputy Commissioner Md Ashrafuzzaman told bdnews24.com that they were proceeding to the spot.