A union-level leader of the ruling Awami League was stabbed to death by unknown assailants in Sreepur upazila of Magura last night.

The victim, Protap Shah, 50, was AL general secretary of Kadirpara union unit and a resident of Radhanagar village in the upazila.

Protap, also a shopkeeper, came under the attack when he was returning home from Radhanagar bazar around 9:30pm, said Shah Mohammad Awaulad Hossain, officer in-charge of Sreepur Police Station.

“As he reached inside the boundary of his house, two miscreants stabbed him in his chest indiscriminately and left the scene,” the OC said.

 He died on way to Magura General Hospital, the police official said.

The motive behind the killing could not be known immediately.