At least five people were stabbed in separate incidents crime, including mugging, in the capital on Tuesday morning.
The injured included a couple, a city corporation waste management worker, a trader and a rickshaw driver.
The victims were all taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment, according to the DMCH police outpost in-charge Md Faruk.
In Islambagh鈥檚 Jamidar Goli neighbourhood, an unidentified youth attacked Abu Musa, 45, and his wife Shahnaz Akter, 36, with a knife at about 6:30am on Tuesday.
Shahnaz鈥檚 sister Shahida Khanam later took the couple to the DMCH.
Shahida said that an unidentified youth entered the house after he found the door open.
鈥榃hen Shahnaz saw him and went to catch him, the boy stabbed her with a knife,鈥� Shahida said, adding that as Musa came out and tried to catch the youth, he stabbed him too.
Local people detained him, beat him and later handed him over to the police.
Chawk Bazar police sub-inspector Mohammad Nazrul Islam said that police went to the spot and found the couple covered in blood and a young man injured.
The injured youth identified as Sohag, 18, was believed to enter the house with the intention of stealing, added the police official.
In another incident in Vatara鈥檚 Notun Bazar area, 52-year-old Ahsan was stabbed by two or three unidentified individuals.
Ahsan, an employee of Dhaka North City Corporation鈥檚 waste management department, said that he was attacked while supervising morning cleaning operations in the area.
The attackers took away Ahsan鈥檚 mobile phone before fleeing. His colleague Shahabuddin rescued him and took him to DMCH at about 7:00am.
Meanwhile, three people stopped a battery-run auto-rickshaw and stabbed both the driver and a passenger in the Janapath Crossing area under Jatrabari police station.
The injured are the rickshaw driver, 32-year-old Abbas, and the passenger, 56-year-old vegetable trader Abdul Latif.
The incident took place at about 7:00am when three persons attempted to snatch the auto-rickshaw, leaving both of them injured, said Kamruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Jatrabari police station.
The victims decided not to file a case as the muggers could not take anything away from them, added the police official.
