Muggers stab Hindu devotee in Pabna

Muggers stabbed a Hindu devotee at Pathartola in the district town early yesterday.

The victim, Bashanto Kumar Das, 35, son of Akil Sutro Das, of Dakkhin Nagar village of Dinajpur, is a volunteer serving a Dinajpur temple of Satsangha Bangladesh.

“After collecting money for the Dinajpur temple, from the devotees in Chittagong, he came here by train on the way to Dinajpur early Saturday. To spend the rest of the night, he started for the temple here,” said Topon Sarkar Hory, caretaker of Satsangha Bangladesh temple at Pathortola of Pabna.

"Around 4:00am, four to five criminals stabbed him near the temple and snatched his bag containing the collected money. Locals and temple men took him to Pabna Medical College Hospital," he said.

He is now out of danger, said doctors at the hospital.

"It seems Bashanto was stabbed only for mugging," said Abdulla Al Hasan, OC of Pabna Sadar Police Station.

Earlier on June 10, unidentified criminals hacked Nitta Ranjan Pandey, 60, a devotee of Hemayetpur Satsangha Ashram, and later IS claimed the responsibility of the incident.