An Awami League leader was allegedly hacked to death in Sitakunda, Chattogram, on Wednesday night. The incident occurred around 11 p.m. at Golabaria Taltola embankment area of Muradpur Union. The victim, Md Shamim, 40, was the organizational secretary of Ward 9 of Sitakunda Municipality Awami League and a resident of Dakshin Shibpur. Police said two people were being questioned but had not been arrested, and their identities were not disclosed.

According to the victim’s brother, Mohammad Selim, Shamim had gone to visit his in-laws with his wife earlier that evening. Around 10:30 p.m., several individuals called him out and took him to the embankment area, where he was beaten and fatally attacked. Selim mentioned that Shamim had a dispute about 15 days earlier with two local men named Zafar and Iran.

Sitakunda Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mohinul Islam stated that the body was sent to Chattogram Medical College Hospital for autopsy. He said the killing was not politically motivated but stemmed from previous enmity, and an investigation was underway.