Robbers stab 82-year-old to death at Dhaka home

A Bangladeshi expatriate who lived in the United Kingdom was stabbed to death by robbers at his apartment in the capital’s Dhanmondi early yesterday, say police.
AKM Abdur Rashid, 82, a physician, arrived in Dhaka with his wife from the UK in September.
The incident took place around 2:30am on the first floor of a six-storey building in Dhanmondi-15. The area falls under Hazaribagh Police Station.
Mohammad Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge of Hazaribagh Police Station, told The Daily Star, “The apartment had a large balcony without any grills for protection. Rashid was offering [Tahajjut] prayers inside his room with the balcony door open, through which a group of armed robbers broke into the house in the middle of the night.
“As they tried to snatch a gold chain, Rashid tried to stop them, resulting in the criminals stabbing him.”
The police said CCTV footage showed there were at least three robbers.
“We are investigating the incident and trying to arrest the attackers.”
The other tenants of the building found Rashid critically injured and took him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead around 3:45am, said Inspector Md Farouk, in charge of the police outpost at the hospital.
Saidur Rahman Badhan, one of the tenants, said he woke up to loud cries during the night, and upon reaching Rashid’s room, he found the house owner lying unconscious in a pool of blood while his wife was helplessly trying to get a response from his motionless body.
The couple used to visit the country in September and depart for the UK in December every year, he said.