2 murdered in city
Two men were murdered in separate incidents in the city on Friday night.
In Shantinagar, unidentified miscreants stabbed vegetable vendor Moktar Hossain alias Badsha, 30, of Jatrabari indiscriminately at around 11:30pm.
Locals rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries 10 hours after being injured.
Nur Jahan Begum, the elder sister of the deceased, said it might have been a pre-planned murder as the attackers did not take the mobile phone set and Tk 22,000 which was in Moktar's possession during the attack.
However, police claimed that Moktar was a drug peddler and he was killed by some other drug peddlers following a previous enmity.
The police detained Shahidullah, one of the associates of Moktar, for interrogation in this connection.
Meanwhile, the decomposed body of an unknown man, aged around 35, was recovered from a flat on the top floor of a seven-storey building at Nikunja-2 under Khilkhet police station, said Khilkhet police.
On information from Tofazzal Haque, the caretaker of the building, police recovered the body of the man whose hands and legs were tied with rope and neck was wrapped in a towel.
Tofazzal said four men rented the flat on December 14 but after the day they never came there. On the night of January 27, four men came to the flat and from the next day the caretaker found the flat locked again.
Tofazzal couldn't identify the men who came on January 27.
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