An expat Awami League leader SM Abdul Ahad, 38, was stabbed to death in Sylhet’s Tantipara area.
The incident was reported around 11pm on Friday.
Ahad, the Organizational Secretary of Kuwait AL hailed from Rajnagar Upazila of Moulvibazar.
Sylhet Police OC Mosharraf Hossain told Bangla Tribune that, a group of five-six unidentified youths came on motorbikes and stabbed the victim indiscriminately when he was returning home.
Locals took severely injured Ahad to Osmani Medical College Hospital, where the victim died due to excessive bleeding, he added.
Police is suspecting the assailants were professional killers, who are being already hunted down, Hossain said.