Shop robbed in Bhasantek, guard found dead in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area

Police recovered the body of a security guard of shops in Dhaka's Bhasantek area this morning after thieves took away some goods from a shop.

The body of Sujon Mia, 40, was found in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area with injury in his head and a scarf tied up around his neck, police said.

Police suspected that unidentified thieves killed him as he tried to resist them from robbing the shops and dumped the body in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area.

"Primarily we came to know that Sujan tried to resist when a group of thieves went to steal from the shops in Bhasantek. At one stage, they hit him in the head and took him to their vehicle," Zahirul Islam, a sub-inspector of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station said.

"We are suspecting that the thieves later strangled him as a scarf was tied around his neck, and dumped the body on 60-feet road," he said.

Police rushed him to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in the morning where doctors said he was already dead.

Delwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Bhasantek Police Station, said hailing from Kishoreganj, Sujan used to work as a guard at some shops. Thieves took away some batteries, unlocking one of the shops named Anik Motors around 3:30am.

"A neighbour said he saw Sujan discharging duty there before the incident happened. We are suspecting that thieves killed him," he said.