A shrimp trader was shot dead by two criminals at Lata Bazar in Paikgacha upazila of Khulna last night.
Immediately after the killing, locals caught the two and beat them to death.
The deceased trader was identified as Dulal Mandal, 35, son of Janek Mandal of Putna Khali village in Lata union.
Humayun Kabir, officer-in-charge of Paikgacha Police Station, told The Daily Star the two criminals shot Dulal in the head around 8:30pm, killing him on the spot.
Later, the locals chased the two and caught them at Kathamari, which is around one kilometre away from Lata Bazar, and beat them to death, he said.
The identity of the criminals could not be known immediately.
Police recovered a Chinese pistol, 20 rounds of bullet and a magazine from the spot.
Dulal might have been killed over previous enmity, the OC said.
In another incident, a class IX student of Platinum Jute Mills High School was beaten to death by some unidentified youths at the playground of the school at Khalishpur of Khulna last night.
The deceased was identified as Bappy, 15, son of Mozaffar Hossain, an employee of Platinum Jubilee Jute Mills at Khalishpur.
The miscreants beat Bappy severely around 9:30pm. He was rushed to Khulna Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared him dead at about 10:15pm.
The body was kept in the hospital morgue for autopsy.
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