Unidentified miscreants stabbed one youth to death in the city's Lalbagh area yesterday.

Dadan Bepari, 25, was stabbed him in the chest and abdomen while he was going to a restaurant he used to work with at 5:45am on the Kamalbagh embankment, witnesses said.

Dadan ran to a nearby shop and asked for help. People rushed him to the Mitford Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries within minutes of arrival.

A murder case was filed with the Lalbagh Police Station, but no-one was arrested till last night.

Meanwhile, a middle-aged man was burnt to death when fire gutted five rooms in a market at Pallabi yesterday morning.

Erfan Ali, 45, was caretaker of the market. He was sleeping when the fire, originating from unidentified source, enflamed five rooms near the Raun Bahumukhi Samabaya Samity at avenue 5, Pallabi, at 3:45am.

Erfan's body was discovered in the ruins in the morning.

The fire also burnt down valuables said to be worth Tk 80,000 before the firefighters extinguished it at 4:25 am.