Bagerhat: Two people were killed and another person was injured in an attack allegedly over Awami League infighting at Doibaggahati in Morelganj upazila on Monday.

The deceased were identified as Ansar Ali Dihidar, general secretary of Doibaggahati union unit of AL, and Sukur Sheikh, 42, an activist of the unit.

The injured, Bablu Sheikh, labour secretary of Tanti League’s Doibaggahati unit, was sent to Khulna Medical College Hospital.

Police super of the district Pankaj Chandra Roy said three miscreants wearing burqas swooped on the Doibaggahati union parishad complex in the afternoon and tried to kill its chairman Shahidul Islam.

However, the chairman’s supporters caught them and beat them mercilessly, killing one on the spot and injuring two others, he said, adding that one of the injured succumbed to his injuries at a hospital.

Two supporters of the UP chairman were arrested for interrogation over matter, the SP said.

However, injured Bablu claimed that armed cadres of Shahidul picked them up from Doibaggahati Bazar area in the afternoon and took them to the union parishad complex. ‘They forced us to wear burqas. Later, the chairman took us outside and started shouting saying we tried to kill him. His supporters swooped on us with arms and sticks,’ he said.

He also claimed that they were victims of a planned conspiracy over previous enmity, he said.