- Seven assailants in motorbikes attack
- Two cops injured, one of them dies
- Home minister visits the injured
A police constable was stabbed dead after unknown assailants attacked
a patrol team of Ashulia industrial police in Savar, on the outskirts
of Dhaka today.
The victim was identified as Mukul Hossain, 23, our Savar
correspondent reports quoting police. Another constable was also injured
in the attack.
The attack took place in Baroipara area on the Dhaka-Tangail highway
around 7:45am, said Nazmul Hassan, assistant superintendent of Ashulia
police.
The policemen were preparing to set up a check post there when a
group of about seven people, riding three motorbikes, swooped on them
with sharp weapons, he said.
Both Mukul and his colleague Nur-e-Alam were injured on the spot.
They were later rushed to Enam Medical College Hospital where Mukul
succumbed.
No case was filed until last reported around 11:00am.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan visited the injured attending treatment at the hospital around 11:15am, hours after the incident.
On October 22, an
assistant sub-inspector of police died after unknown assailants knifed him at a check post in the capital’s Gabtoli.
