The tragedy unfolded around 1:00 AM on Wednesday in Chithli Paschimpara (Porarhat) village, located under the Boro Hazratpur Union. Mizanur, the son of the late Abdul Mannan, operated a small grocery store near his residence at the Porarhat market. According to accounts from his grieving family and local residents, Mizanur had been embroiled in a protracted legal and personal dispute over land with a neighbour, Abdul Kafi Munshi. Tensions boiled over earlier on Tuesday afternoon when members of the opposing faction allegedly drove a motorcycle directly into Mizanur’s legs while he was sitting outside his shop. When he protested against the deliberate intimidation, a heated verbal altercation ensued, culminating in open threats against his life.

Fearing for his safety, Mizanur immediately took his mother, Ajuba Begum, to the police station to register a formal general diary. However, disaster struck as they made their journey back home after completing the police formalities. As their transport neared the Porarhat market close to midnight, a gang of miscreants intercepted the rickshaw-van.

Eyewitness and family accounts indicate that a group of ten to twelve assailants—identified in police filings as Nurnabi, Nur Mohammad, Masud, Mostafizar, Kalam, Mahfuzar, and several others—surrounded the vehicle. Armed with heavy wooden batons, machetes, and sharp knives, the attackers dragged Mizanur down onto the road. They brutally beat him with clubs before hacking him multiple times across his body with lethal blades. Distraught mother Ajuba Begum reportedly begged and pleaded with the attackers with folded hands to spare her son’s life, but the perpetrators shoved her aside and continued their frenzied assault. Mizanur succumbed to severe blood loss at the scene before the gang fled into the darkness.

Upon receiving emergency reports, local officers from Mithapukur Police Station rushed to the scene to recover the body. The remains were subsequently dispatched to the Rangpur Medical College Hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination.

In response to the horrific crime, victim’s mother Ajuba Begum lodged a formal murder case at Mithapukur Police Station on Wednesday, naming ten individuals as prime suspects alongside seven to eight unidentified accomplices. Local neighbours Delwar Hossain and Abdul Karim expressed profound shock at the audacity and brutality of the daylight-style ambush carried out under the cover of night. Meanwhile, sister Rekha Begum described her late brother as an innocent, peace-loving provider who regularly checked on his family, and she demanded the maximum possible punishment for those responsible. Police authorities have confirmed that special tracking operations are underway to apprehend all named suspects connected to the homicide.