Teenage boy beaten to death in city
A teenage boy succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday morning after being beaten in the city's Lalbagh, police and his relatives said.
The victim is Bilal Hossain Shuvo, 16, son of Lalu Miah at Amligola of the area. His family claimed he was a hawker of New Market area.
Police detained two youths, Younus and Shakil, claiming to be friends of Shuvo, in this connection, who said some residents of a house in the area beat Shuvo after catching him red-handed while stealing.
But the area's residents claimed there was no such incident of beating or theft, said Sub-Inspector Mir Sabbir Ali of Lalbagh Police Station, adding that they are suspecting that Shuvo's friends are involved.
Shuvo's elder brother Mohammad Rashed said his mother last saw Shuvo with his friends at a clubhouse in Shaheednagar Pukurpar around 11:00pm on Saturday when he said he would attend a wedding and not be home that night.
They found Shuvo bruised and unconscious inside the clubhouse in the morning yesterday and rushed him to DMCH, he said.
Morgue sources said the body bore marks of injury.
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