Muggers kill truck driver

A truck driver was stabbed to death by criminals near BCMC College in the district town early yesterday. The victim was identified as Haidar Ali, 40, resident of Barandipara area in the town and son of Taher Sheikh of Palpara village in Sadar upazila of Pirojpur district. Police said a gang waylaid Haidar near the college at about 4am while he was returning to his Barandipara house by a rickshaw after keeping his truck in Monihar area of the town. They stabbed him indiscriminately and looted his mobile phone set and cash and fled the scene. The victim was rushed to Jessore Medical College Hospital where the doctors declared him dead.