A first year student of higher secondary level of Phultala M.M. College in Khulna was stabbed dead by some unknown assailants on the college premises Thursday noon. The deceased was identified as Alif Hossain, son of Taher Tutl of Kasba village in Phultala upazila. Read: Man shot dead in Munshiganj clash “Some five or six miscreants swooped on Alif with sharp weapon and stabbed him indiscriminately. Later locals rescued him with severe injuries and took him to upazila health complex,” said Ilias Talukder, Officer-in-Charge of Phultala police station. Alif was transferred to Khulna Medical College Hospital where he died, said the OC. The killers are yet to be identfied but efforts are on to arrest them as soon as possible, he said.

A 45-year-old man was hacked to death  in Dighalia upazila  of Khulna early Monday. The deceased was identified as Yasin Sheikh, 45. Read: 3 to die for murder in Khulna He was an Awami League activist working for Farhana Halima, the party’s candidate in the upcoming Senhati Union Parishad poll. The victim's family claimed that he was killed in an attack by rivals centering the election. According to locals, he was stabbed at 3 am by unidentified criminals. Later they rushed him to Dighalia upazila health complex where a doctor declared him dead. Officer-in charge of Dighalia Police Station(Investigation) said police have launched an operation to arrest the attackers. Read: Another police informer murdered in Khulna The body has been sent to the morgue of Khulna Medical College Hospital for autopsy, he added.

A Khulna court on Thursday sentenced four people to death and five others to life term imprisonment for killing a businessman in 2010.

The Appellate Division of Supreme Court on Monday upheld the life term imprisonment of two convicts for killing Rakib Hawlader, a minor boy of Khulna city, in 2015.

A second police informer was hacked to death by yet unidentified attackers in Khulna’s Dighalia upazila on early Sunday.

A tribunal in Khulna on Thursday convicted three people and sentenced them to death for killing a worker of Khulna Sri Agro Limited in 2015.

A Khulna court on Tuesday sentenced three men to life imprisonment for killing a man in Phultala upazila of the district in 2016.

A Khulna court on Wednesday sentenced five people including four brothers to life term imprisonment in a murder case filed in 2014.

A college student was stabbed to death at Naihati in Rupsha upazila of Khulna on Saturday night.