A mob beat two men to death when they were fleeing after shooting a Jubo League leader in Raozan upazila of Chittagong yesterday.
The deceased are Mozammel Hoque, 38, and Sumon, 28, both hailing from Panchkhain village under Bagoan union in the upazila.
The bullet-hit Jubo League leader Abdul Khalek, 35, of Panchkhain Dorgabari, was admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) with bullets in the belly and back.
Khalek, also a member of ward No 5 of Bagoan union, said he was returning home from the market on an easy-bike around 11:00am.
As soon as he had reached Panchkhain School, four BNP cadres -- Mozammel, Belal, Nazrul Islam Minto and Sumon -- intercepted his vehicle by a CNG-run three-wheeler coming from the opposite direction, and opened fire on his vehicle from guns, he added.
Khalek then jumped out of the vehicle  and started running. But the four shot     several rounds of bullet that hit him in        the back and abdomen. The attackers then tried to flee the scene boarding the three-wheeler.
But the enraged locals chased the attackers and caught Mozammel and Sumon at Choumuhuni of nearby Pahartali union in the upazila, said Pahartali union parishad (UP) member Mohammed Ayub.
They mob then beat Mozammel and Sumon to death while the other two managed to flee.
On information, police reached the spot, recovered the bodies, and sent those to Chittagong Medical College morgue for autopsies, said Enamul Haque, officer-in-charge of Raozan Police Station.
Khalek said Mozammel and his gang had been threatening him to leave the area over the phone for the last week so that they could establish supremacy in the locality, as the tenure of the present government is about to expire.
Mohammed Ariful Alam, secretary of Bagoan union unit of Awami League, alleged that the four were known as BNP cadres and were the followers of BNP leader Gias Uddin Quader Chowdhury.