Dhaka, Feb. 26 -- year-old schoolgirl was stabbed to death by an unidentified attacker in an alley near Hazaribagh Hotel under Hazaribagh Police Station in the capital on Wednesday night.

The deceased was identified as Shahriar Sharmin Binti, an eighth-grade student of Rayerbazar High School. She was the daughter of Billal Hossain, originally from Kachikata village in Sakhipur police station of Shariatpur district.

Binti had been living with her family on the fifth floor of Babu Commissioner's house next to Haider Ali Hotel in the Hazaribagh area.

The incident occurred around 9:30pm. She was rescued in a critical condition and taken to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared her dead at around...