Schoolboy beaten to death over trivial matter in Hathazari

Staff Correspondent

A schoolboy named Muhammad Tanvir was beaten to death in Hathazari, Chittagong, due to a previous dispute over a trivial matter.

The tragic murder took place in front of the old municipality office of the upazila yesterday afternoon.

Muhammad Tanvir (14), son of Abdul Barek, an expatriate from Munshipara in Ward No. 1 of the municipality, was a ninth-grade student at the local Alipur Rahmania School.

Police and local sources said that on October 15, a fight broke out between two groups of schoolchildren in a local market over a trivial matter. When some students, including Tanvir, went to stop the fight that day, Tanvir got into an argument with one of the violent groups. As a result, when Tanvir left school on Tuesday afternoon during the school’s tiffin break, 10-12 people beat him up.

Locals rescued him in a seriously injured condition and first took him to the Upazila Health Complex. When his condition deteriorated, he was taken to Chittagong Medical College Hospital, where he died in the evening.

Mohammad Saifur Rahman, headmaster of Alipur Rahmania School, said that Tanvir had tried to resolve a dispute between some students at the school a few days ago. Angered by the incident, one group attacked Tanvir, resulting in his death.

Hathazari Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Tarek Aziz said the murder occurred after a fight between two groups of schoolchildren. Efforts are underway to arrest the accused.