Bogra: A man was hacked to death allegedly by his stepbrother over a land-related dispute at Doikandi village in Shajahanpur upazila of Bogra on Thursday evening.

The Shajahanpur police officer-in-charge Abdul Hakim said Mahbubur Rahman had an enmity with his stepbrother Nazrul Islam over the ownership of a piece of land.

As a sequel to the enmity, Nazrul and Mahbubur had an altercation over the issue at about 6:00pm and at one stage, Nazrul stabbed Mahbubur with a sharp weapon, leaving him critically injured.

Later Mahbubur was rushed to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries at about 7:30 pm.

However, police could not arrest Nazrul as he fled the scene.