A Jubo Dal activist was hacked to death by a group of armed assailants at Satla in Wazirpur upazila of Barishal on Friday night.
The deceased was identified as Kawsar Hawlader, 37.
Another Jubo Dal activist Rashed Amin, was critically injured in the attack.
Wazirpur Model Police Station Officer-in-charge (OC) Rakibul Islam confirmed the incident.
According to police, the incident took place at around 9:30pm on Friday when Kawsar, Rashed, and several fellow party activists were conversing on a bridge in the Paschim Satla area along the Wazirpur–Kotalipara border.
A gang of armed attackers arrived at the scene in a microbus and launched a sudden assault on them.
In a bid to save their lives, Kawsar and Rashed jumped into the water beneath the bridge and took refuge in the nearby house of one Habib Hawlader.
The assailants, however, broke down the door, entered the house, and hacked Kawsar before leaving him severely wounded.
Kawsar was rescued and rushed to the Kotalipara Upazila Health Complex, where the attending physician declared him dead.
Police and locals said that the killing was pre-planned and carried out following previous enmity.
OC Rakibul said the body has been sent to the morgue for an autopsy.
Preparations are underway to lodge a murder case, and multiple police teams have been deployed to identify and arrest those involved in the killing, he added.
