Dhaka, April 8 -- Five people have been stabbed in separate incidents involving muggers and assailants in Dhaka, according to the police.

Those injured in Tuesday's attacks include a couple, a city corporation waste management worker, a trader and a rickshaw driver.

The victims were all taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for treatment, according to Inspector Md Faruk, chief of the hospital's police outpost.

Among the injured, Abu Musa, 40, and his wife Shahinaz Akter, 35, are residents of Islambagh's Jamidar Goli neighbourhood. Around 6am, a man attacked them with a knife and fled. Shahinaz's sister Shahida later brought the couple to DMCH around 8:30am.

Shahida said she did not know the reason for the attack. Their family...