Sun News Desk : A former leader of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed to death by his rivals in Shahjahanpur area of in Dhaka on Friday.
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Deceased Waliullah Rubel, 36, had served as an office secretary for the organisation's Shahjahanpur wing and lived with his family in Joardar Lane of the area.
Police said Rubel was a general secretary candidate of Jubo League in Ward No. 12 of Dhaka Metropolitan South and ran an internet business in the area.
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Shahjahanpur Police Station officer-in-charge Farukul Alam said a gang of 5-6 members attacked Rubel with sharp weapons while he was returning home from Rajarbagh area on foot around 1.45am, leaving him critically wounded.
He was firstly taken to Islami Bank Hospital and then, to National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation where the on-duty doctors referred him to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the on-duty doctors declared him dead.
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Rubel had several injury marks on his head, arms, shoulder, and legs, said Dhaka Medical College Police Outpost inspector Bachchu Miah.
Police are investigating the motive behind the attack and working to identify the perpetrators, the OC added.
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