Schoolboy killed by drug addict in-law
An eleven-year-old boy was brutally murdered allegedly by his cousin's husband while trying to save his father from the wrath of the drug addict in-law at Beparipara village in Nilokkhia union of Bakshiganj upazila under the district yesterday morning.
The deceased, Rana, son of Mozammel Haque of the village, was a Class IV student of Nilokkhia Government Primary School.
Police arrested Babu, 30, and his brother Omar Faruk, 18, sons of Abdus Salam of the same village, in connection with the murder.
Babu, son-in-law of Maskut, elder brother of the victim's father Mozammel, is a drug addict.
Babu often put pressure on Maskut to give him money to buy liquor, police quoted the victim's family members as saying.
As Maskut and his brothers Mozammel and Golam Mostafa strongly objected to Babu's drinking habit and decided not to give him any money for the purpose, Babu got furious.
Babu and his men started beating his in-laws around 10:00am yesterday.
As Rana came forward to save his father, Babu hit him on the throat with a shabol (a sharp object used for digging earth), leaving him critically injured, said Mohammad Rubel Mia, officer-in-charge (Investigation) of Bakshiganj Police Station.
Rana died on the way to Baksiganj Upazila Health Complex.
Informed, police rushed to the spot and arrested Babu and Omar Faruk, the OC said, adding that they sent the body to Jamalpur General Hospital morgue for autopsy.
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