Two leaders of Chhatra Dal were rescued as crtically injured with thier hands and feet tied up with rope from a riverbank in Raozan upazila in Chittagong.
They were brutally tortured and left in the area thinking that they were dead.
The two leaders were being abducted by an armed group in Raozan upazila.
The victims Muhammad Zainal Abedin, 32, and Sajjad Hossain, 30, were rescued by locals and are now being treated at Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
The incident occurred on Thursday afternoon when a group of 10-12 armed men abducted the leaders from the Noapara Union Parishad office around 1pm.
The assailants took them to a remote riverbank area near Chowdhury Ghat, where they beat them with hockey sticks, iron rods, and wooden clubs.
The attackers, thinking the victims were dead, left them tied up on Mazher Char, a sandbar where the Karnaphuli and Halda rivers meet, four kilometers away from the abduction site.
Locals later discovered the critically injured men and rushed them to the hospital.
Zainal Abedin, a former member secretary of the Upazila Chhatra Dal, and Sajjad Hossain, president of the Union Chhatra Dal, are both known followers of Ghulam Akbar Khondokar, convener of the BNP’s northern district unit.
Zainal’s father, Shawkat Hossain, claimed the attackers had demanded ransom. "When we couldn’t pay, they severely beat my son, attempting to kill him," he said.
Jasim Uddin, convener of Raozan Upazila BNP, alleged that the attack was politically motivated and ordered by their opponents. He called for the immediate arrest of the perpetrators.
Raozan police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mir Mahbubur Rahman confirmed that efforts are underway to arrest the attackers, though they have not yet been identified.
"No formal complaint has been filed so far, but we will take action once a complaint is lodged," he said.
The attack comes amid heightened political tension in Noapara Union, where at least five violent clashes have occurred between rival factions of the BNP since the fall of the Awami League government on August 5.
