Five stabbed in ‘revenge attack by drug dealers’
Criminals stabbed five people, who earlier handed over some drug peddlers to police in Chandpur’s Kachua upazila, on Thursday night.
Police suspect that the drug peddlers attacked them.
The injured are chairman of Jagatpur union community police Mofizul Islam, 60, his son Iman Hossain, 35, Shariful Islam, 23, Md Shakil, 18, and Mostakim Hossain Miraj, 40.
They were undergoing treatment at Kachua Upazila Health Complex, Oli Ullah, officer-in-charge of Kachua Police Station, told The Daily Star.
According to the case statement filed over the attack, the victims were returning home around 10:00pm Thursday when a group led by “drug peddler” Mostafizur Rahman Sohag attacked and stabbed them at Khajuria.
One of the injured Iman yesterday lodged a case with Kachua Police Station against eight people, including Sohag, the OC said.
On April 24, three people were caught red-handed selling yaba pills at Khajuria. They were then handed over to police.
The drug peddlers might have attacked them after coming out of prison on bail, the police official added.
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