A madrasa student was stabbed to death by unidentified people in the capital’s Jatrabari area on Sunday night.
The deceased was Mahim Mia, 15, a resident of Kajla area in Jatrabari and son of Din Islam from Kishoreganj Sadar.
He studied in the hifz section of a local madrasha, according to his family.
His brother-in-law, Md Rafi, said several youths stabbed Mahim indiscriminately at Kajla school lane area around 10pm.
Family members rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead around 11:30 pm.
Inspector Md Faruk, in-charge of the police camp of DMCH, said the body has been kept in the hospital morgue for postmortem and Jatrabari police have been informed of the incident.