DHAKA: Miscreants stabbed a couple and their two sons at their residence at South Goran in Khilgaon area of the city on Sunday morning.
 
The injured--- Mizanur Rahman, 40, his wife Bilkis Begum, 32, and their two sons – Rafiqul Islam, 15, a class X student of a local school, and Belal Hossain, 13, a class VII student—were admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

Injured Belal told banglanews that a group of unknown people, numbering 5 to 6, came to their tube well to wash themselves at dawn. At that time, his mother asked their identities; all of sudden, those people began chopping their mother with lethal weapons indiscriminately.

Hearing hew and cry, he along with his father and brother stepped forward to protect her. The miscreants also stabbed them and fled the scene, leaving all the four critically injured, he added.    

Later, locals rescued them and whisked of to the hospital, said Belal.

DMCH police outpost Sub-Inspector (SI) Sentu Chandra confirmed the matter to banglanews.

BDST: 1114 HRS, JAN 11, 2015