A dentist was stabbed to death during a suspected mugging in the capital’s Shewrapara area early on Sunday.
The deceased is 41-year-old Ahmed Mahi Bulbul, who practiced at his chamber, “Rangpur Dental”, in Moghbazar, according to AFM Mahtabuddin, deputy commissioner of the Mirpur zone of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
He left his home in Shewrapara early in the morning for Noakhali and encountered a mugger soon after, media reports quoted the police as saying.
His phone was gone but police found money in his pockets. “The perpetrators probably stabbed him in the thigh and fled with the mobile phone,” Bdnews24.com quoted Mahtabuddin as saying.
Pedestrians took Bulbul to a local hospital after the incident. He was later taken to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, where the doctor on duty declared him dead.
"He was stabbed in his lower thigh. The first hospital could not grasp the extent of the injury as he was wearing pants. He soon died of excessive bleeding,” said the senior police officer.
The body was kept at the morgue of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital for autopsy, said police.