Khulna: A young man was stabbed to death by unknown miscreants at Juragate area in the city on Tuesday noon.

The deceased was Saidur Rahman Hawlader, 25, son of Selim Hawlader, a resident of 7 No. ghat area of the city.

Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Khulna Police station, said three unknown miscreants swooped on Saidur and stabbed him incrementally with a sharp machete, leaving him critically injured around 12:30pm while he was sitting at a betel leaf shop in the area.

Later locals rescued him and rushed to Khulna Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared him death.

The motive behind the killing could not know immediately.