A drug addict uncle reportedly stabbed his nephew to death in the capital's Kamrangirchar area on Sunday.
The deceased Tanin Hossain Sifat, 22, was the son of Md Jamil Khan, 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 injuries who is receiving treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital with stab wounds in the throat.
Currently, they used to live in a rented house with family in Keraniganj Amirabad.
Victims' maternal uncle Ripon Mia said the brothers were employed at his electric shop in Kamrangirchar.
Around 4pm, 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 6:15pm, 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.