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An employee of a beverage company was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants in Kadamtali area of the capital on Thursday night.
The deceased was identified as Mahbub Alam, 52, who was engaged in supplying water and soft drink bottles to different shops.
Locals said the gruesome killing occurred around 10:30 pm near a mosque at Paterbagh in Kadamtali area.
When Mahbub was walking past the mosque, unknown assailants hacked him with weapons, leaving him severely injured, said his brother Rafiqul Alam.
He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead. The body was kept at DMCH morgue for postmortem.
Kazi Abu Kalam, officer-in-charge of the Kadamtali Police Station, said police were trying to collect details from the deceased's family.