An informer of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) was killed allegedly by unidentified miscreants at Jhumjhumpur in Jessore town last night.
The victim was Ziauddin, son of Shahjahan Ali of Sadipur in Kushtia district.
Locals said the miscreants stabbed Zia near local BGB School around 10:00pm on his way to a local bazar from his Jhumjhumpur home, leaving him critically injured.
He was taken to Jessore General Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.
Zia is believed to have been killed for giving information about smugglers to the law enforcers, police said.
Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge Abdul Jalil said they launched an investigation to identify the killers.