A man died this evening, around 12 hours after he was stabbed by muggers in Dhaka's Moghbazar area.

The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Habibullah, 18, an employee of a cloth shop in old Dhaka's Islampur area. The youth used to live in Moghbazar.

According to police, the incident happened around 5:45am when the victim was walking towards his residence while returning from his ancestral home in Mymensingh, where he went for a couple of days.

"Some muggers intercepted him and stabbed him in the head, leaving him critically injured," said Md Razu, officer-in-charge of Hatirjheel Police Station.

He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he breathed his last around 6:00pm, the OC said.

The police official said they are collecting CCTV footage of the nearby areas and trying to arrest the killers.

Sohel Rana, a relative of the victim, said the muggers took away his mobile phone.

The body was sent to the DMCH morgue for autopsy.