Two persons, including a local leader of Jubo League, were hacked to death in separate incidents in the capital on Wednesday.
The Jubo League leader was identified as Mokhter Hossain, 30.
Police said Mokhter was killed in an ambush by a gang of unidentified criminals around 9:30am, at the rear of Abul Hotel in Malibagh.
He was passing through the area when the attackers swooped on him, leaving him with multiple stab wounds. Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital(DMCH) declared him dead around 11am.
Mokhter was a vice-president of ward-23 unit of Jubo League, a youth front of Awami League.
Earlier in the day, a pick-up van driver identified as Russell Bhuiyan, 21, was stabbed to death in the capital’s Demra area.
Police suspected he might have been killed by people he knew and had probably a feud with. But the motive of the murder is yet to be known.
Rezaul Karim, brother of Russell, said he went out of his rented apartment in East Boxnagar around 12am when someone called in his number. Later, he was found with stab wounds at his throat, chest and other body parts.
After he was taken to DMCH, doctors declared him dead. A case was filed in this connection.
Russell hailed from Keshabpur village of Titas upazila in Comilla.