Youth stabbed dead in Dinajpur

A young man was stabbed to death over a trifling matter at Mohishkotha in Sadar upazila on Thursday night.

Redwanur Rahim, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station, said Mahbub Islam, 35, son of Aftab Uddin of Mohishkotha village, along with his father was returning home from a fair in Cheradangi by a van.

When the van reached Mohishkotha, Mahbub locked into an altercation with a man over giving side to him around 8 pm.

At one stage, the man hit Mahbub with a sharp weapon, leaving him critically injured, reports UNB.

Later, he was taken to Dinajpur M Abdur Rahim Medical College where doctors declared him dead around 10:45 pm.