Overview
- Fifty-year-old Khokon Chandra Das died Saturday morning at Dhaka’s National Burn Institute, three days after being stabbed and set on fire near Keurbhanga Bazar in Shariatpur.
- Doctors reported roughly 30% burns with severe facial and respiratory injuries, along with a serious abdominal wound, after he was initially treated at Shariatpur Sadar Hospital and transferred to Dhaka.
- Investigators in Damudya said two suspects, identified as Rabbi and Sohag, have been named in the case, with efforts to arrest them under way.
- Witness accounts say the attackers doused Das with petrol; he escaped the flames by jumping into a pond before locals rescued him and rushed him to hospital.
- Relatives say he had no known disputes, report that he recognized two assailants, and demand justice as the killing is linked by observers to a spate of recent attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh.