A schoolboy was stabbed to death allegedly by a classmate at the Kewatkhali Railway School premises in Mymensingh town on Tuesday morning.

The deceased is Rasheduzzaman Liyon, believed to be 15, a class IX student of the school, a resident of Bolashpur area of the town, reports UNB.

Kotwali Model Police Station Officer-in-charge (OC) Kamrul Islam said one Nayeem, a classmate of Liyon, stabbed him near the school ground at about 9:30am, leaving him critically injured.

Later Liyon died on the way to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.

The OC said that the reason behind the murder could not be known immediately.