Muezzin stabbed dead in mosque

Published: 4 April 2016, 09:41 AM
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.