A local Juba League leader was hacked to death by miscreants in front of the Raninagar Club at Sujanagar upazila in Pabna district on Friday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Al-Amin Miah, 38, was a member of the Raninaga Union Juba League.
Harun Ur Rashid, officer-in-charge of Aminpur Police Station, confirmed the matter on Saturday.
According to police and locals, there has been a conflict between the present upazila chairman, Abdul Wahab, and the former chairman, Shahinuzzaman Shahin, over the last Upazila Parishad election. There were reports of clashes among the supporters of the two groups.
Al-Amin, from Shahin’s group, was attacked on Friday around 3:30 p.m.
Locals rescued him and took to Pabna General Hospital where doctors referred him to RMCH as his condition deteriorated. He passed away on the way to RMCH around 7:30 pm.
The police suspect that the attack was carried out over establishing supremacy and past conflicts between the two groups, the OC said.
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