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Bangladesh: Journalist stabbed to death in Gazipur, five detained
At least five people have been detained in a case filed in the murder of a journalist in Bangladesh's Gazipur area, media reports said.
The people were detained from the scene and surrounding areas and brought to the police station, Officer-in-Charge (OC) Shaheen Khan of Basan Police Station told The Daily Star.
The names and addresses of the detainees will be announced later, the OC told The Daily Star.
Md Selim Mia, brother of the victim, has filed the case against unidentified persons, he said.
The slain journalist was identified as 40-year-old Asaduzzaman Tuhin.
He was reportedly working for Mymensingh-based daily Pratidiner Kagoj for around five years.
Originally from Bhatipara village of Mymensingh's Phulbaria upazila, Tuhin lived in the Chowrasta area, police told the newspaper.
Shaheen Khan, officer-in-charge of Basan Police Station, told the newspaper that Tuhin got involved in an altercation with four to five youths at a tea stall near the Masjid Market in the Chandana Chowrasta area around 8:00pm.
At one point, the youths stabbed him with a knife. He died on the spot, the OC said.
Polie later recovered the body after visiting the scene.
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