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A drug addict man reportedly stabbed his nephew to death in the capital's Kamrangirchar area on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Tanin Hossain Sifat (22) a plastic trader of Kazi Pagla village of Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj district.
At that time, the victim's elder brother Tamim Hossain Shrabon (23) sustained injury, and is receiving treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital with wounds in the throat, according to a UNB report.
Victims' maternal uncle Ripon Mia said the brothers were employed at his electric shop in Kamrangirchar.
Around 4 pm, they came to our home and discovered that my younger brother, Rakib Hossain, was physically abusing my mother for money for consuming drugs.
"When they tried to restrain Rakib from assaulting her, he attacked them with a knife, leaving them injured" he said.
They were rushed to DMCH where doctors declared Sifat dead around 6:15 pm, he added.
Ripon Mia said his brother Rakib is a drug addict and is unemployed
The body was kept at the hospital morgue for an autopsy, said Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) police outpost.
The matter was informed to the concerned police station, he added.