Police informant stabbed to death

A police informant was stabbed to death in the capital’s Rampura area early yesterday.

The deceased was identified as Rasel, 23, a resident of the capital’s Khilgaon, said Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital police outpost.

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Rasel’s friend Al Amin told The Daily Star that Rasel was with his friends at Taltola Super Market on Sunday night. “Around 2:30am, one Swapan called him on cellphone and told him to go to Lalmath area.”

Four to five people stabbed Rasel indiscriminately there, he added.

“One Swapan, a drug trader, was furious with Rasel as he had handed over some of his accomplices to police over drug trade,” Al Amin said.

Rasel was rushed to the casualty unit of DMCH in a critical state where doctors declared him “brought dead”. He sustained stab injuries to his abdomen, hands, and ribs, according to DMCH sources.