A Juba League leader was hacked to death by miscreants in front of the Raninagar Club in Pabna鈥檚 Sujanagar upazila on Friday afternoon.
The deceased Al-Amin Mia, 38, died at about 7:30pm while being taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. He was a member of the Raninagar union Juba League, said Harun Ur Rashid, officer-in-charge of the Aminpur police station, 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 are reports of clashes among the supporters of the two groups.
Al-Amin, from Shahin鈥檚 group, was attacked on Friday at about 3:30pm.
Locals rushed him to Pabna General Hospital, from where he was referred to RMCH as his condition deteriorated. He breathed his last on the way to RMCH.
Police suspected that the attack was carried out over establishing supremacy and past conflicts between the two groups, the OC said.
