A Satkhira teen, who was beaten by a group of unidentified criminals is shifted to the ICU after a critical surgery at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

 The victim Shaheen, 14, sustained critical injuries when the miscreants snatched his vehicle in Satkhira’s Patkelghata upazila on Friday (Jun 28).

Shaheen went out to earn bread for his family on the fateful day.

A group of four to five men hired his auto-rickshaw from Jashore’s Keshobpur upazila and headed towards nearby Satkhira’s Patkelghata upazila, said the victim’s father who was seriously sick and was unable of getting out of his home.

On the way, the criminals asked Shaheen to stop beside a jute filed. They beat him up until he lost consciousness and left him in the jute field. Later, when Shaheen regained sense, he started crying, the father narrated quoting the victim.

Hearing him cry, locals rushed him to a local hospital, he added.

A photograph of the boy smeared with blood went viral on social media.

Rezaul Hossain, officer-in-charge of Patkelghata Police Station, said Shaheen’s father Haider filed a case against some unknown persons.

Police were trying to arrest the criminals, he added.

Haider bought the auto-rickshaw with the money he got as a loan from the local NGO.