Khulna: A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal was shot to death by miscreants at Amirpur of Batiaghata upazila in Khulna on Sunday.

The deceased, Nazrul Islam is general secretary of Amirpur union unit of Jubo Dal and son of M Hashim of Amirpur area.

The Batiaghata Police Official said miscreants opened fire on Nazrul when he was standing in front of his fish enclosure at Amirpur around 7:30 pm, leaving him injured.

Nazrul was sent to Khulna Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.

Nazrul had loggerheads with a local group over the fish enclosure, said general secretary of Khulna district unit of BNP advocate Shafiqul Alam Mona adding that Nazrul’s rival might have killed him.