A youth was stabbed to death by miscreants when he tried to calm a quarrel between them and his cousin in the capital’s Donia yesterday.
On vacation, Masud Rana, 23, of Barisal, who was studying BBA in a Malaysian university, had been at his aunt’s Dhaka house for the last few days, said relatives.
Masud’s cousin Mehedi said some miscreants took his cellphone in the evening and to get it back they went to nearby Donia Koborshan Goli area.
They had an altercation on the roof of a six-storey building with around five miscreants; said Masud’s another cousin Jewel.
Later, the miscreants stabbed him in the head and abdomen, said Mehedi.
Jatrabari police Officer-in-Charge Anisur Rahman said the attackers went into hiding.