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Muezzin stabbed dead in mosque

A Muezzin was stabbed to death by miscreants inside a mosque at Islampur area in old part of Dhaka early on Monday.The deceased was identified as Belal Hossain, 55, was the muezzin of Jabbar Khan Jam-e-Masjid at Islampur.Kotwali Police Station OC Abul Hossain confirmed the matter.He said, local people found the body in a pool of blood on the stairs of the mosque when they went to the mosque for Fajr prayer. On information, law enforcers rushed to the spot and recovered the body.