A youth stabbed his girlfriend and then tried to commit suicide yesterday after the girl’s parents refused his marriage proposal at Bangshal in the capital.
The youth, Saidur Rahman, 19, works at an electric wire factory at Sat Raowza, while the girl, Sharmin Akhter, 15, is a class eight student of Yusuf Sarder High School. They live in separate flats of the same building at Nimtoli.
Sharmin said Saidur stormed into their flat and stabbed her twice in the abdomen while she was preparing for school at 9:30am. He then tried to kill himself by stabbing repeatedly in his abdomen, she added.
Sharmin’s mother was asleep at that time, and no one else was in the flat.
Locals rushed the two to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Saidur who was in police custody at DMCH was in a critical condition, said hospital sources.
Sharmin’s friend Lovely said Sharmin’s parents turned down Saidur’s proposal to marry their daughter on Sunday, and this might be the reason he tried to commit suicide.
Talking to The Daily Star at DMCH, Sharmin admitted she loves Saidur.
Abdul Mannan, officer-in-charge of Bangshal Police Station, said the boy stabbed himself and his girlfriend as the girl refused to elope with him.
