Muggers stabbed a student and took off with his money and mobile phone near Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early today.

The injured was Md Shamim, 18, a student of Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan (BKSP).

The incident took place around 5:30am when Shamim was on his way to airport bus stand to catch a bus to Savar, Mahbub-e-Khuda, officer-in-charge of Turag Police Station, said.

"About four to five muggers waylaid him and stabbed him. They took away his money and mobile phone," the police official told The Daily Star.

Locals rescued him and rushed him to a nearby clinic. Later he attended to treatments at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, the police official added.