A college student was beaten to death by miscreants in Chittagong’s Boalkhali upazila on Tuesday night.
The deceased was identified as Alamgir Hossain Emon, 24, son of Abdul Salam of East Charkhijirpur village of the upazila, a master’s degree student of Government Hazi Mohammad Mohshin College.
Police have arrested two persons named Mohammad Syed and Mahbubur Rahman on suspicion of being involved in the incident.
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Abdul Salam, father of the deceased, said: "Khorshed Alam, the son of the neighbouring Nabidul Haque, has been trying to occupy my land for a long time. He also threatened to take over the land. Khorshed came to occupy my land with about 70 to 80 men with locally made sharp weapons around 12:30pm on Tuesday. When they tried to build a boundary wall, we stopped them along with the locals. When they returned around 1:15pm, they forcibly dragged my son to a distance down the road, beat him and strangled him to death."
Abdul Karim, officer-in-charge of Boalkhali police station, said police rushed to the spot and recovered the body.
The incident is under investigation, the OC added.