An army officer and an unidentified man were killed by “dope gangs” in the capital on Thursday.
These gangs drug their victims using sedatives or poisonous material.
Over 150 people were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the last two months after falling victim to these gangs.
Corporal Tajul Islam, 35, from Comilla Cantonment was found unconscious under the Khilkhet flyover in Dhaka around 11:30pm on Thursday by another soldier. He was rushed to Combined Millitary Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Officer-in-Charge of Khilkhet police station Shamim Hossain said Corporal Tajul came to the Transit Camp in Dhaka Cantonment, from where he went out in the evening.
The OC said he was fed a poisonous mixture and bore marks of injury on his left leg.
Victim’s brother Md Sumon filed a case in this connection. Tajul was married with two daughters.
Sub-Inspector Benjir Ahmed of Cantonment police station said they were waiting for the autopsy report to find out if the corporal was drugged or killed in a planned way.
In a separate incident, police recovered the body of an unidentified man near North Badda Bazar in the morning.
SI Nur-e-Alam of Badda police station said they found a man wearing a lungi and a white T-shirt lying on the footpath at 11am and rushed him to Badda General Hospital. As his condition deteriorated, he was shifted to DMCH, where he died.
Six others, including a Singapore-bound passenger, were admitted to DMCH after they were found unconscious at various places of the capital; five others were admitted to the hospital on August 27.
Hospital sources said more than 150 people have been admitted in the last two months after they were drugged and robbed.