STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Ctg

A college student was killed after he was allegedly beaten and thrown into a lift shaft from the eighth floor of a building in Chattogram.

The incident, which took place at an under-construction building in the Mousumi Residential Area on DC Road on April 12, came to light on Wednesday night after police arrested four suspects in connection with the killing.

The deceased was identified as Ashfaq Kabir Sazid, 17, from Cox’s Bazar. He was a student of BAF Shaheen College in Chattogram and lived alone in a flat on DC Road in Bakalia, according to his father, Abul Hasem.

Hasem filed a case with Chawkbazar Police Station on April 13.

According to the case statement, Ashfaq was called by one of his friends, Fardin Hasan, on April 12 and asked to come to the Mousumi Residential Area intersection. When he arrived, Ayman, Anik, Rana, Michael, Eliash, Enayet Ullah, and Miskatul Kayes, along with others, allegedly held him at knifepoint and took him to a deserted place.

The statement said that, in an attempt to save himself, the victim ran and took shelter inside the under-At “The

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