Four people, including two students, were beaten to death in two separate incidents in Jatrabari and Wari areas in the capital on Wednesday.
The deceased are Arafat Sharif, 20, Saidul Islam Yeasin, 19, and Alamin Bhuiyan, 40, and his brother Nurul Amin, 35.
Arafat Sharif and Saidul Islam Yeasin were beaten to death on allegations of rape in the Sayedabad area in the capital鈥檚 Jatrabari.
Samrat Sheikh, who brought them to the hospital, said that the victims were taken to Jatrabari police station at about 8:30am after they were allegedly physically tortured in a hotel in the Sayedabad area.
As their condition deteriorated, they were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the on-duty doctor declared them dead at about 11:00am.
Shilpi Akhter, Yeasin鈥檚 mother, said that Yeasin had been volunteering at different places for 15 days.
鈥極n Tuesday morning, he went out from his house in Dhalpur鈥檚 Baubazar area in Jatrabari. Since then, I spoke to him over the phone several times,鈥� she said, adding that she spoke to her son last at about 4:00am on Wednesday,鈥� she said.
Shilpi said that someone called her in the morning saying that her son鈥檚 condition was critical and asked her to come to Jatrabari police station.
She said, 鈥楳y son was able to speak when he was taken from the police station to the hospital. Yeasin and Arafat said that they did not commit any crime and were beaten on false charges.鈥�
He was a student at a madrassah at Qutubkhali. The deceased Arafat was Yeasin鈥檚 friend and was also a student, Shilpi said.
Arafat hailed from Kadamirchar village of Araihazar upzaila in Narayanganj, according to the national identity card found from his wallet.
In another incident in Wari, two brothers Alamin Bhuiyan and Nurul Amin were beaten to death due to a dispute over a flat sale.
Confirming the matter, Wari police station officer-in-charge Zame Alam Munshi told 抖阴精品 that it was initially believed to be a murder due to long dispute.
鈥榃e are not confirmed about anything yet. The details will be be known after investigation,鈥� he said.
Alamin was the general secretary of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 Wari Thana unit.
Alamin鈥檚 wife Munmun Bhuiyan said that the family gave money to a company called Classical to buy a flat in Hatkhola area two years ago but the flat was not handed over to the family yet.
鈥榃e had an ongoing dispute with the company about the matter. A group of people of the company鈥檚 owner killed my husband and his brother when they went to see the flat today,鈥� she said.
They were seriously injured and rushed to the DMCH where the on-duty doctor declared them dead.
DMCH outpost in-charge Bachchu Mia said that the bodies were kept at the DMCH morgue for autopsy.
