Around six to seven armed men stormed the flat of a man who just
returned from the US and stabbed him to death yesterday. The incident
happened at Bhasantek in the capital.
The dead is Monsur Rahman, 59.
The assailants also took away 25 tolas of gold ornaments, 1.5 lakh in cash, two laptops and other valuables from the flat in a five-storey building.
Sufia Rahman, the victim's wife, told The Daily Star that around 7:10pm the criminals entered the flat finding its door open and started to look for one Sumon. Monsur was out then.
”When the killers were told that no one named Sumon lived there, they said they would search for him themselves,” she said.
At one point, the criminals tied the hands of the five family members, including Sufia and her daughter Jhumur, with rope.
When Monsur entered the flat after offering his prayers in a local mosque, his hands were tied as well. He was stabbed six to seven times in the back the moment he tried to resist the killers, Sufia said, sobbing uncontrollably.
The assailants fled afterwards. Locals rushed in and rescued the family hearing their screams for help.
Monsur was rushed to a local hospital where duty doctors declared him dead, said sources.
The victim went to the USA around five years ago and had been living in New York. He returned to Bangladesh on June 15 to see his doctor daughter.
The dead is Monsur Rahman, 59.
The assailants also took away 25 tolas of gold ornaments, 1.5 lakh in cash, two laptops and other valuables from the flat in a five-storey building.
Sufia Rahman, the victim's wife, told The Daily Star that around 7:10pm the criminals entered the flat finding its door open and started to look for one Sumon. Monsur was out then.
”When the killers were told that no one named Sumon lived there, they said they would search for him themselves,” she said.
At one point, the criminals tied the hands of the five family members, including Sufia and her daughter Jhumur, with rope.
When Monsur entered the flat after offering his prayers in a local mosque, his hands were tied as well. He was stabbed six to seven times in the back the moment he tried to resist the killers, Sufia said, sobbing uncontrollably.
The assailants fled afterwards. Locals rushed in and rescued the family hearing their screams for help.
Monsur was rushed to a local hospital where duty doctors declared him dead, said sources.
The victim went to the USA around five years ago and had been living in New York. He returned to Bangladesh on June 15 to see his doctor daughter.
