A man was arrested in Bangladesh's Jhenaidah region on suspicion of murdering his neighbour.

Mehedi Hasan, a 25-year-old native of Master Para, was stabbed to death around midnight on Sunday, Mahbubur Rahman, chief of Kaliganj Police Station, told bdnews24.

The arrested person was identified as Akram.

Mehedi went out to buy cigarettes around 12 am,  OC Mahbubur told the news portal, citing Mehedi’s family.

He asked Akram for some money at the time, but the two got into an altercation, the suspect told police during the preliminary interrogation.