A 40-year-old sanitary mechanic was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants at Jurain in the capital on Friday evening.
The deceased was identified as Suman Milon alias Mintu, son of the late Abul Hossain Mridha.
According to police and hospital sources, the incident occurred at around 7:30pm on Friday at Nobaron Goli in Jurain.
On receiving information, a team from Kadamtali Police Station rescued the victim from the spot and rushed him to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where attending doctors pronounced him dead at around 10:45pm.
Confirming the incident, Kadamtali Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Mithun Mondal said police received reports in the evening that a man had been stabbed and abandoned at Nobaron Goli.
Upon reaching the scene, officers found the victim with the tendons of both his legs severed and multiple wounds across various parts of his body before taking him to DMCH, where doctors declared him dead.
SI Mondal added that the deceased hailed from Char Fatihbahadurpur village under Kalkini Police Station in Madaripur district.
He worked as a sanitary mechanic and lived with his family in a rented home near Mokam Para Mosque at Hasnabad in South Keraniganj.
Police stated that the identity of the killers and the reason behind the murder were not immediately known.
An investigation is underway to uncover the details, and the body has been kept in the hospital morgue for an autopsy.
