A female teacher of Chittagong Nursing College was hacked by masked miscreants near her residence in Telipatti area under Panchlaish police station of Chittagong city yesterday morning.
The dead Anjoli Debi, 50, was senior teacher of the college and wife of Rajendra Nath Deb, hailing from Gobindaganj area of Gaibandha district, police sources said.
Hearing the news of her death, students of the college staged demonstrations and gave a 24-hour ultimatum to authorities concerned to arrest the killers, said a third year student Masum Rabbani.
Several hundred students of the college boycotted classes and brought out a procession from their college campus which paraded adjoining city roads. Later, they organised a rally in front of CMCH Forensic Building and gave their ultimatum.
Quoting Anjoli’s husband Rajendra, police said four masked men attacked Anjoli on Telipatti Road near her residence around 9:30am when she was waiting for a rickshaw to go to her workplace. The miscreants suddenly came and hacked her indiscriminately, leaving her critically injured.
Later, she was rushed to Chittagong Medical College Hospital by locals and admitted into Intensive Care Unit where she succumbed to her injuries around 11:45am due to excessive bleeding, said CMCH police outpost In-Charge Sub-Inspector Jahirul Islam, quoting duty doctors.
He said: “The body had hack bruises on the head and limbs. It has been sent to CMCH morgue for autopsy.”
Chittagong Metropolitan Police Panchlaish Circle Assistant Commissioner Dipok Jyoti Khisha said the killed might have been preplanned.
“As mobile, money or other valuables of the victim were not snatched, it indicates that it was not an attempt of mugging,” he said adding that she might have had enmity with somebody in her workplace, family or in the local area.
Panchlaish police station Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Mohiuddin said they were investigating into the matter and taking all possible outcomes into cognisance.
He said no one has been arrested in this connection yet but legal measures were under process.