A SSC examinee was on Sunday hacked to death in an attack by unknown assailants shortly after he attended a farewell reception by his school at Gulshanpara of Chuadanga town, police said.
The motive behind murdering Tonmoy Topu, 17, a student of Al-helal Secondary Islami Academy, could not be immediately known.
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According to witnesses the assailants attacked the boy with a sharp weapon when his classmates left the school after the reception. They left him lying on the school ground with severe injuries.
Locals rushed him to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital where the duty doctor declared him dead.
Officer-in-Charge of Chuadanga Sadar police station Mohammad Mohsin said police are hunting the attackers.
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