What the records say
- When
- 2015
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 24.90° N, 91.87° E
- Description
- 2015 child murder in Sylhet, Bangladesh
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the town its description names, Sylhet.
Murder of Sheikh Mohammad Samiul Alam Rajon
2015 child murder in Sylhet, Bangladesh
Sheikh Mohammad Samiul Alam Rajon was a 13-year-old boy who was lynched and killed by four men on July 8, 2015, in Sylhet, Bangladesh. The four men who killed Rajon accused him of stealing a bike shortly before lashing, torturing, and beating him to death. According to local police, Rajon died due to internal bleeding.
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- Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Thirteen-year-old Sheikh Mohammad Samiul Alam Rajon is lynched in the vicinity of Kumargaon Bus Stand, Sylhet, for allegedly trying to steal a rickshaw van”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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