Staff Reporter
A woman advocate was stabbed to death by three motor-cycle borne assailants in Assam’s Barpeta district, police said on Tuesday.
The woman, identified as Rinima Begum, had accompanied her elder sister who was unwell to a doctors chamber at Biloritarihat area in Barpeta town on Monday night when a group of three persons in a motorcycle attacked her with sharp weapons and she was fatally stabbed.
She was rushed to the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College and Hospital where she was declared ‘brought dead’, an official said.
The assailants escaped and a search has been launched to nab them.
The killing is suspected to be related to a land dispute and the woman advocate was attacked once earlier too, the police official added.
