Gandaria area of the capital was stabbed. A battery operated rickshaw driver named Jinnah (60) was killed. This incident took place at around 3:30 pm on Friday.
Eyewitness Fazlul Haque said that rickshaw driver Jinnah came to Gendaria area with passengers from Postgola. There, robbers stabbed him in the stomach near Anjuman Graveyard on Rajni Chowdhury Road. Others came forward at Jinnah’s shout. Then the robbers left Jinnah’s rickshaw and fled.
Later he was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital at around 4 pm. The doctor on duty there declared him dead. Jinnah’s body has been kept at Dhaka Medical College morgue for post-mortem.
Inspector of Dhaka Medical College Hospital Police Outpost. Farooq Prothom Aloke confirmed this information.
Officers-in-charge (OC) of Gendaria police station, Abu Shahed Khan told Prothom Alo that a person was killed by robbers late at night in Gendaria area. Police personnel are being dispatched to the scene and to the hospital.