Funeral held for food delivery worker stabbed to death in Manhattan

LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- A funeral was held Tuesday night for a Grubhub delivery worker who was stabbed to death in Manhattan Saturday.

Mourners came to the Bangladesh Muslim Center in Brooklyn to help lay 51-year-old Miah Sala to rest.

Sala was working to send money to his wife and two children in Bangladesh.

A bike messenger delivering food was brutally stabbed to death and robbed of his e-bike early Saturday in Manhattan.

Security video showed the suspect sit next to Sala, on a bench inside Sarah D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side Saturday.

The assailant stabbed Sala then stole his e-bike as Sala tried to follow him.

Police are still looking for his killer.

There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.

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