{"id":7114,"date":"2026-01-22T15:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7114"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:05:06","slug":"auto-rickshaw-driver-beaten-to-death-on-chattogram-street-as-bystanders-look-on-police-detain-one-identify-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7114","title":{"rendered":"Auto-Rickshaw Driver Beaten to Death on Chattogram Street as Bystanders Look On; Police Detain One, Identify Another"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An auto-rickshaw driver was beaten to death on a neighborhood road in Chattogram\u2019s Bayezid Bostami area on Wednesday night while onlookers stood by without intervening, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim, <strong>Khorshed Alam<\/strong>, a CNG auto-rickshaw driver, was assaulted by three men in Middapara near the Amin Jute Mills area. Closed-circuit footage of the incident circulated on Facebook shows a verbal dispute escalating into a physical attack; the injured driver was later taken to hospital, where doctors declared him dead, according to Bayezid Bostami Police Station OC <strong>Zahidul Kabir<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said there is no evidence so far of prior enmity between the parties. Preliminary inquiry suggests the confrontation began over a remark about the victim\u2019s <strong>bad breath<\/strong>, which spiraled into the fatal assault. Officers have <strong>detained one suspect<\/strong> and <strong>identified another as Md. Hossain<\/strong>; efforts to locate additional assailants are ongoing. The victim\u2019s family is preparing to file a case, the OC added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The killing comes two days after a separate deadly incident in the wider Bayezid Bostami jurisdiction, heightening concern over public safety. Authorities have urged residents to share any information or footage that could assist the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An auto-rickshaw driver was beaten to death on a neighborhood road in Chattogram\u2019s Bayezid Bostami area on Wednesday night while onlookers stood by without intervening, police said. The victim, Khorshed Alam, a CNG auto-rickshaw driver, was assaulted by three men in Middapara near the Amin Jute Mills area. Closed-circuit footage of the incident circulated on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7115,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions\/7115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}