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\nNew York: A 60-year-old Bangladeshi woman was stabbed to death about a block and a half away from her home in Queens on Wednesday, police said today.
\nNazma Khanam, 60, a Bangladeshi expatriate, was walking about 9:00pm in front of 160-12 Normal Road in Jamaica Hills when she was stabbed after what sources say may have been an attempted robbery, reports CSB NY.<\/p>\n
However, Khanam's family believes her death could have been a hate crime because the victim was wearing traditional Muslim clothing when she was attacked, but police are not categorising it as such, according to PIX11 News.<\/p>\n
She was reportedly walking ahead of her husband when she was attacked. Her husband was not able to save her in time.<\/p>\n
“Her husband was behind her one and a half blocks away and he didn't see nothing,” said Mohammed Rahman, a nephew of the victim.<\/p>\n
“She's just crying or something, ‘Somebody kill me, somebody kill me,' and he's coming to help. He didn't realise somebody stabbed his wife.”<\/p>\n
Khanam was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Sources say it is unknown at this time if the attacker made off with any of Khanam's property.<\/p>\n
Her nephew said police told him they did not.
\n“This neighborhood, it's never happened like this,” Rahman said. “I'm living here, like, six years.”<\/p>\n
Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce, who arrived at the scene about 7:00am today (NY local time), said there's nothing to indicate this incident was a hate crime.<\/p>\n
Still, the Muslim community in Queens has been on edge since the execution-style deaths of an imam and his association as they left services at an Ozone Park mosque in early August.<\/p>\n
In that case, the victims were wearing religious attire but police have not commented on whether the shootings were a hate crime. The slayings happened about 5 miles from where Khanam was killed.<\/p>\n
The victim is survived by three children. Two of them live in Bangladesh; the other lives in New York.<\/p>\n
The NYPD Muslim Officers Society tweeted about the incident, saying Khanam was the aunt of a city transit officer.<\/p>\n
“lets catch the perp,” the group tweeted.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made in the slaying. Police have not released a description of the attacker, reports PIX11 News.<\/p>\n
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