A local BNP leader was hacked to death by criminals in Domar upazila early yesterday.
The deceased was identified as Jalaluddin Ahmed, 40, organising secretary of Bamunia union unit BNP.
Locals and party sources said a gang of 10/12 waylaid Jalaluddin on Domar-Chilahati road around 12:30am when he was returning home from a relative's house at Chapra Natibari village along with his two associates.
At one stage, the criminals attacked him with sharp weapons, leaving him dead on the spot. However, his associates managed to flee the scene.
The body was sent to the hospital morgue for autopsy, said Domar upazila BNP general secretary Firoz Prodhan.
The law enforcers arrested two people in connection with the incident.
A case was filed.