A young garment worker succumbed to his stab injuries at Chittagong Medical College Hospital early yesterday morning .
Rakib Hossain Rokan, 22, an employee of Salam Brothers Limited in Sagarika industrial area of the port city, came under attack at about 10:20pm Tuesday as he was returning home from work along with a female colleague.
According to police and family sources, Rakib, son of Moksed Haoladar of Paschim Guilshakhali in Bagerhat, got into an altercation with some unidentified criminals near Sagarika divisional stadium.
At one stage of altercation, the miscreants beat him and stabbed in his chest and back after taking him to a roadside ditch.
Rakib was rushed to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries shortly after the midnight on Tuesday.
None was arrested in this connection, and police could not find any reason behind the murder till yesterday afternoon.
Sub-inspector Obaidul Hoque of Pahartali Police Station who was investigating the incident, however, suspected that Rakib might have protested stalkers of his colleague and faced the attack.