An NGO official was stabbed to death at Chaprashirhat Purba Bajar under Companigonj upazila in Noakhali yesterday. Locals detained the killer when he was trying to run away and handed him over to the police after beating him up.
The victim was identified as Tapan Chandra Bhowmic, 35, the son of Kumod Chandra Bhowmic from Upadi Lamsi village of Chaprashirhat union under Kabirhat upazila of the district. He was a project director of a local non government organisation named Basoti., from Chaprashirhat.
Mahabubur Rahaman, officer-in-charge of Kabirhat police station, said , Abu Sayed Hukku, the murderer and his accomplices entered the Basoti office around 1pm and stabbed Tapan in his chest.
When Tapan cried for help, locals came to the office and saw him bleeding. The locals rushed him to the Noakhali Abdul Malek Ukil Medical College, where the doctors on duty declared him dead.
Meanwhile Abu Sayed Hukku tried to flee the scene with his associates, but shop owners near the NGO office caught him and handed him over to the police with the knife used for murder. Rest of his associates managed to escape.
A case was filed with the police station in this connection.