A group of unidentified muggers have robbed and hacked a retired army sergeant to death at Shakpala Bus Stand in Bogra’s Shajahanpur upazila.
The deceased is Shafiqul Islam, 45, who was on LPR (leave preparatory for retirement) following his retirement from Bangladesh Army.
The incident took place around 3am on Bogra-Natore highway in Shajahanpur’s Fultola area on Wednesday when Shafiqul was returning home after receiving his son Ashraful Islam at Shakpala Bus Stand.
Ashraful is an trainee army private and arrived at Bogra the same night from Jessore Cantonment on vacation.
The muggers have snatched two mobile phones and Tk4,000 from the duo.
According to police and local sources, a group of miscreants stopped them in front of Fultola’s Millennium Scholastica School.
Some of the muggers dragged Shafiqul into an adjacent park while his son was engaged in a brawl with the rest of the bandits.
At one point, Ashraful managed to free him from the outlaws and rushed to Bogra Cantonment’s main gate to pass on the message.
Ashraful, along with some other army men, returned to the spot shortly after only to find his father lying on a pool of his own blood .
Duty doctors declared him dead when Shafiqul was taken to the Combined Military Hospital in Bogra.
Sub-Inspector at Koigari police outpost Shafiq told the Dhaka Tribune that police had arrested five suspected muggers in connection with the incident while the local confirmed that Rapid Action Battalion members had detained three more persons for interrogation.
Shajahanpur police station Officer-in-charge Zia Latiful Islam said the son of the deceased has lodged a case against the unidentified muggers in connection with his father’s murder.
The dead body was sent to Narsingdi’s Monohardi upazila, the hometown of the deceased, for burial after an autopsy.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
