An 18-year-old volunteer party worker, Mehedi Hasan Akib, died after an alleged beating in Ishwardi, Pabna. Police and his family said they had not yet established who assaulted him or why. Akib died on Wednesday morning in the Lalpur area while being taken from Ishwardi উপজেলা Health Complex to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.

Family and local sources said Akib left home on Tuesday evening and did not return. Before dawn on Wednesday, unidentified people reportedly left him injured at Ishwardi উপজেলা Health Complex in an autorickshaw. His father, Anisur Rahman, went to the hospital after receiving the news.

After initial treatment, the attending doctor advised that Akib be taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. Police said no sharp-weapon injuries were found, but there were signs that he had been beaten, and the death may have resulted from the assault. Local sources said Akib supported a former Ishwardi volunteer party member secretary, amid a longstanding dispute over sand quarry control in the Sara and Islampara ghat areas.