Chinese citizen stabbed to death by compatriot in Sylhet

A Chinese citizen was stabbed to death by his fellow countryman as they got into a fight in Pathantula area of Sylhet on Tuesday.

The deceased was identified as Wei Wentao, 40, a worker at the power plant in Kumargaon.

The alleged attacker Xue Chao, 48, was a colleague of the victim. Police detained him from the spot

The incident happened around 8 am today, in a flat on the 5th floor of a residential building where 13 Chinese workers working at power plant live.

Informed by the locals, around 1 pm Kotwali police and a team of Sylhet Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) recovered the dead body from the scene and sent it for an autopsy.

Xue Chao himself had to be rescued from the scene with injuries and sent to hospital.

Officer-in-Charge of Kotwali Model police station, SM Abu Farhad said all the other residents of the flat went to work around 8 am. Hearing sounds of a fight, locals have informed the police.

“Wei and Xeu Chao physically clashed with each other following a heated altercation over washing hands after breakfast (around 8am on Tuesday),” the OC said.

At one stage, they attacked one another with knives. Wei was critically injured during the brawl, while Xue received minor wounds.

The victim had a stab mark in the middle of the chest while the attacker had some marks on his body too, said police.

Police have recovered two knives from the flat and legal processes are ongoing to detain the attacker, said the OC.