Police have arrested two teenagers on charges of involvement in the murder of Kamrul Hasan (23) on Hanif flyover in the capital's Sayedabad. They were arrested in a raid in the Karatitola area of Jatrabari around 6:30 am on Saturday. One of them is 17 years old and the other is 16 years old.
According to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police's media and public relations department, Kamrul Hasan was walking on the Hanif flyover in the Sayedabad area at around 8:40 pm on Wednesday. At that time, some robbers stopped him. At that time, the robbers threatened him with country-made weapons and tried to snatch his cash and mobile phone. When he resisted, one of the robbers hit Kamrul in the chest with a sharp knife. Then they snatched a mobile phone and 7,000 taka from him and fled. Later, Kamrul was rescued by local people and taken to Mugda Medical College Hospital, where the doctor on duty declared him dead. Kamrul's father Imam Hossain filed a murder case with Jatrabari Police Station as the plaintiff in this incident.
Police said the two arrested were active members of a professional robbery gang. They used to rob mobile phones, cash and valuables from pedestrians in and around Hanif Flyover in Jatrabari. They mainly robbed to raise money for drug consumption.