Bakery employee murdered

Unknown assailants slaughtered Mainuddin Sikdar, 35, manager of Mister Food Products, when he was asleep in his room at the bakery at Nawabganj Lane around 1:00am.

"Hearing his scream, we rushed to his room only to find him groaning with cuts in his throat," said one of his colleagues who were sleeping in the next room.

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They also found a bloodstained knife close to him.

Police detained Siddiqur Rahman, owner of the bakery, and five workers -- Abu Sayeed, Mannan, Russell, Manir and Jalil -- in the morning for questioning.

Mainuddin's uncle Shajahan Sikder filed a case with Lalbagh Police Station accusing worker Nasir, who went missing since the incident, and Anwar, a step-brother of Shajahan.

In Mohammadpur, 24-year-old AKM Ashraful Haque Prince, a student of Mohammadpur Central College, was stabbed in his stomach and back at 2:30pm allegedly by his friend Zakir following a feud over the sale of a mobile phone.

Russell Khondokar, 31, was shot at Dhanmondi over a sum of money he lent to his friend Tushar a year ago.

He said Tusher, who owed Tk 18,000 to him, fired point-blank at him near the Abahani Sporting Club. The bullet passed through his stomach.

In Mirpur, a labourer, Zakir Hossain, received a bullet in his stomach after the cadres of Hazi group fired at him over taking control of a ghat at Gabtoli at around 11:00am.

A gang of muggers shot Abul Kalam, 22, in his head and left hand and took away Tk 2,500 from him near the Mouchak Market at 10:30am.

In Badda, muggers shot 23-year-old Mohammad Rezaul, a fish trader, in his stomach and robbed him of Tk 7,000 at 7:00am when he got out of his house to buy fish from Karwan Bazar.