Cumilla, July 10 (UNB) – Three people, including a woman and her a 12-year-old boy, were stabbed to death allegedly by a man who was subsequently beaten to death by local people at Radhanagar in Debidwar upazila on Wednesday.
The three victims were identified as Anwara Begum, 45, wife of Shah Alam, her son Abu Hanif, 12 and Nazma Begum, 40, wife of Nurul Islam while the attacker was identified as Mokhlesur Rahman, 35, son of Martuz Ali of the village and a rickshawpuller.
Quoting local people, Zahirul Islam, officer-in-charge of Debidwar Police Station, said Mokhlesur attacked Anwara and two others around 11 am and stabbed them indiscriminately with a sharp weapon, leaving them dead on the spot.
Later, local people managed to catch him and gave him a good thrashing, leaving him dead.
Quoting Mokhlesur’s wife Rabeya Begum, police said he went out with rickshaw in the morning as usual and returned home at 10:30 with a sharp weapon in his bag.
He locked into an altercation with Rabeya over family affairs and chased her with the sharp weapon. She managed to escape but he stabbed three other people.
He had no health problem except headache and he had no enmity with others, she said.
Superintendent of police Syed Nurul Islam told reporters that motive behind the killing could not be known yet.
Police detained Rabeya Begum for interrogation.
