Two students of Dhaka University were injured in an attack by unidentified attackers in Ramna Kali Mandir area in Dhaka on early Sunday.

The injured are — Sourav Sarkar, 25, and Sumit, 23, students of the craft and sculpture departments, respectively, of the university and residents of Jagannath Hall.

Senior students of the dormitory said that the duo, accompanied by others, went out of the hall to visit Durga Puja mandaps at night.

An altercation occurred between the two and some people near the Ramna Kali Mandir around 2:00am. The reason behind the incident could not be known immediately.

At one stage, those people beat them up and stabbed Sourav in the stomach with a sharp object, they said.

Returning to the hall, the duo went to their seniors, who first took them to the university’s medical centre.

Later, Sourav was moved to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said the hospital’s police outpost in-charge Md Bachchu Miah.

Quoting physicians, he said that Sourav’s condition was critical.