Madrasa teacher killed

Unidentified criminals stabbed a madrasa teacher to death in Nandail upazila on Monday night.

The victim, Anisur Rahman Chowdhury, 50, of Rasulpur village, was teacher of an Ebtedayee madrasa in Netrakona's Kendua upazila, police said.

Quoting locals, Officer in Charge of Nandail Police Station Mizanur Rahman Akanda said criminals waylaid Anisur while he was returning home from local Atharabari Rayer Bazar carrying a gas cylinder in his bicycle and started stabbing him indiscriminately, leaving him critically injured around 8:00pm.

Locals rushed him to Nandail Upazila Health Complex where the doctors declared him dead.