Police said three to four youths stabbed the man aged about 50 indiscriminately near the Islami High School at about 9:45pm.

Local people found him lying on the road in an unconscious state and sent him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.

Police said the victim was a drug peddler of Lalbagh area.

"His fellow traders killed him following a feud over the illegal trade," the duty officer of Pallabi Police Station said quoting one Al Amin, who was arrested soon after the incident from the area along with a knife.