Pabna: A local leader of Jatiya Krishak Samity, the farmer wing of Workers’ Party, was shot to death by miscreants at Chachkia village in Atgharia upazila on Wednesday night.

The deceased was identified as Abdul Rashid, 35, vice president of the upazila unit of Krishak Samity and son of late Bahadur Pramanik of the village.

District Workers’ Party president Zakir Hossain said a group of miscreants swooped on Rashid near his house at about 9:00pm.

They stabbed him indiscriminately and fired shots at him, leaving him dead on the spot.

Officer-in-charge of Atgharia police GM Mizanur Rahman confirmed the incident.