A local Awami League leader was shot and hacked to death by miscreants in Baramhati Bazer area of Lalpur upazila under Natore on Saturday. 

The deceased was identified as Abbas Ali, 55, vice-president of Arjunpur Baramhati union unit of Awami League.

Locals said a group of miscreants fired gunshots at Abbas Ali at a local market around 7:30pm when he was in a discussion with some of his associates.

As Abbas was bullet-hit on one of his legs, his associates ran away. 

At one point, the miscreants indiscriminately hacked him with sharp weapons and fled the scene.

Locals rescued the injured and whisked him off to the upazila health complex. 

Later, he was shifted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) where doctors declared him dead.

Officer-in-charge of Lalpur Police Station Abu Wayyed confirmed the incident. 

Police are trying to arrest the alleged killers, he added, according to a news agency.

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Source: The Financial Express