A local Awami League leader was allegedly hacked to death by a group of assailants in Jessore on Monday evening.
The deceased was identified as Thandu Mia, 44, member of Patibila union parishad (UP) ward-4 and son of Sirajul Islam of Patibila village in Chaugachha upazila.
Some six more people also sustained injuries in the attack. They have been identified as Mominur Rahman, 44, Abdul Hamid, 45, Wasim Sarkar, 32, Tito, 32, Abu Bakar Siddique, 40, and Mokbul Hossain, 35, from the same village.
According to Mokbul and other witnesses, all of them were sitting at a tea stall at Patibila Bazar around 7pm when 10 people, including Tito, Ibrahim, Selim, Tota, and Ashraf, attacked them with sharp weapons and sticks over an old enmity.
Locals rushed the injured to Chaugachha Upazila Health Complex. Thandu, Mominur and Abdul were later shifted to Jessore General Hospital, where doctors pronounced Thandu dead.
Saiful Alam, officer-in-charge of Chaugachha police station said: "Efforts are on to nab the accused."
