Naogaon sadar upazila Swechhasebak League Vice-President Ohidul Islam, 45, and his younger brother Shahinul Islam, 40, were hacked to death in the city’s Durgapur area on Sunday.
The incident occurred around 12am when the two were returning home through a wheat field in the area. Some miscreants severed their body parts with sharp weapons and left them on the field. Later police recovered the bodies upon information.
The dead are sons of Mojibur Rahman of Chawkprachi village.
Another brother of the two, Shahidul Islam, filed a murder case accusing eight identified and 10-12 unidentified people with Naogaon Model police station yesterday.
Police held eight people until 4pm yesterday in this connection from Chawkprachi village and other areas.
The arrested are Ershad Ali, Attab Sarder, Shahdul Islam, Mofiz Uddin, Ripon, Abdur Rahman, Shishir and Motaleb Hossain.
The dead bodies were buried in the village after autopsy. Naogaon Model police station Officer-in-Charge Zakirul Islam said police suspected that the murder might had taken place following previous enmity.
