DHAKA, Bangladesh — Authorities are investigating possible motives for the vicious killing of a church worker by students at the University of Dhaka.
A management student at the university and his friends are accused of torturing and killing Swapan Mondol, 35, Sept. 12 in Suhrawardy Park, which is adjacent to the university. Mondol, a convert from Hinduism, was supervisor of youth missions for Free Christian Church of Bangladesh.
Friends of the primary suspect claim they came to his aid after Mondol stole his cell phone, a scenario that Mondol’s wife and police doubt.
His wife, Lucky, said that when she arrived at the hospital she found her husband’s body shot twice in the head. Police suspect Mohammed Rajon and his student friends of the murder.
Local police inspector Rezaul Karim said the students’ story makes little sense. “The students said they caught him red-handed, so why didn’t they just hand him over to us? If he had snatched anything from them, we would have recovered it from him.”
Police will file a murder case, Karim said.
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