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22 April 2010, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent

A teenage garment worker was beaten to death allegedly by the relatives of his girlfriend at Mohammadpur in the city on Wednesday. Hearing the news of the death of Russel Mahmud, 17, an employee at a sweater factory in the area, hundreds of locals and his factory colleagues ransacked the house of the girl yesterday evening. On Tuesday afternoon, Russel eloped with his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, the daughter of the owner of the house where he was a tenant. The girl's uncles Salam, Aslam and Kamal along with hundreds of locals tracked down and picked them from Mohammadur embankment around 2:00am on Wednesday, Russel's sister Kohinur Begum told The Daily Star. They then sent the girl to her house and took the boy and his elder brother Rubel to a nearby building and beat up Russel in front of his brother, she said. “Russel was missing since then. We found the body today [Thursday] at Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital morgue,” Kohinur said. Hospital sources said some unidentified people left the boy at the emergency department of the hospital around 10:30pm on Wednesday. Russel's neighbours told The Daily Star that he had an affair with the girl for the last two years, but the girl's family is very rich while Russel's family is very poor. They said the girl's family owns a number of houses in that area. Russel's father Selim filed a murder case with Mohammadpur Police Station accusing eight persons including Salam, Aslam and Kamal. While visiting the girl's house, this correspondent found no male persons for comments and the females refused to make any comments. Officer-in-Charge of Mohammadpur Police Station Bhuiyan Mahbub Hasan said they were trying to arrest the accused.