Three members of a Bangladeshi family, including a woman and a child, from Companiganj upazila of Noakhali district, have been stabbed to death by miscreants inside their apartment in Rome, Italy.
Another member of the family was critically injured.
The brutal attack happened around 9:00pm local time on Friday (June 26) at a residential apartment on Via Montiglio, in the Aurelio district of western Rome.
The victims were identified as Kamal Uddin Babul (40), son of Sirajul Islam and a resident from Ward No. 5 in Charkankra union under Companiganj upazila, his wife Mamtaz Begum Arju, 38, and their 5-year-old daughter, Aroa Islam Arisha.
Their eldest son, Amir Hossain Ayon (Arafat), aged between 18 and 20, was severely stabbed during the attack. He was rescued and admitted to the local Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital, where he is currently out of danger.
Equipped with sharp weapons, unidentified miscreants entered the apartment and launched a sudden assault.
Ayon was stabbed when he returned home during the incident. Hearing his screams, neighbors rushed to the spot, causing the attackers to flee, after which the police were notified.
According to local sources, the family members were found in a pool of blood at their apartment on Friday night. Babul, his wife and daughter died on the place of occurence. Critically injured Ayon was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) after he was rushed to a hospital.
Following the incident, members of the law enforcing agencies have visited the spot and launched investigation. No formal statement has been released by local law enforcing agency yet informing why such gruesome murders took place. However, sources concerned said it would not be possible to tell anything else about the real causes of murders without a through investigation.
It is learnt that Kamal Uddin Babul and his family had been living in Italy over the last 15 years. Slain Babul's father has claimed that his was received a threat of killing when he came to Bangladesh with his wife and children about 7 months ago. It may indicate the existence of a previous enmity.
Slain Mamtaz Begum Arzu's younger brother Nurul Huda Rakib said: "The entire family of my brother-in-law Babul have received Italian citizenships some days ago. Police have kept the bodies at the hospital for postmortem. My nephew Arafat Hossain Ayon's condition is critical. He is now undergoing treatment at the ICU of a hospital. Steps would be taken to bring the dead bodies to the country on completion of postmortem and necessary legal steps."
It is learnt that the detectives are interviewing neighbors, relatives, and friends. Investigators have not ruled out attempted robbery, a personal dispute, or if the victims knew their attacker and let them into the home.
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