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BSS, Dhunot

A youth was chopped to death at village Kurigati under Dhunot Upazila in Bogra district in the very small hours on Wednesday, police sources said.

The sources said some miscreants chopped Saiful Islam, 24, son of Alhaj Zesarat Ali of the village while the victim was sleeping in an open room of their under-construction house and left the place ensuring his death.

Inmates of the house later found the body of Saiful, who was serving as a meter-reader of the Rural Electrification Board (REB) of Raiganj REB Office in Sirajganj district.

Being informed, Dhunot Thana police rushed to the spot on Wednesday morning, recovered the body and sent it for conducting autopsy to a Bogra hospital. Saidul Islam, younger brother of the victim, filed a murder case with Dhunot police station.