Bride’s father killed, mother severely injured at wedding function

A youth allegedly has stabbed a father to death and acutely injured a mother of a marrying girl in Priyanka Shooting House at Dilu road area of Mogbazar when a wedding function was going on Thursday.

The diseased and injured parents are identified as Tula Mia, 45, who died on the spot and Feroja Khatun who was going under treatment in a hospital in capital.

On the eve of stabbing, police has sent a 23-year-old youth Sajib Ahmed Roky to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment after he was beaten by the invited guests of the wedding function and informed to law enforcement agency.

Roky told police that he stabbed the parents from a mental depression as there was a love-affair for a long time between the marrying girl Swapna Akter, 18, and him.

Abdur Rashid, Officer-in- Charge of Hatirjheel police station confirmed the incident to Jago News. He said, Roky made a chaos in the wedding center before stabbed the parents indisriminately of the marrying girl when a ceremony was holding there with a hand counting people. Police took the stabbed parents to Insaf Baraka Hospital on Mogbazar-Satrasta road where Tula Mia was declared dead.