Dhaka, Dec. 14 -- Residents of a village in the haor area of Kishoreganj's Austagram Upazila have beaten two people to death after they were detained for 'stealing a buffalo' and trying to escape by boat.

The incident occurred on the ground floor of Deoghar Government Primary School in the Upazila's Deoghar Union at 7am on Saturday, according to Ruhul Amin, chief of Austagram Police Station.

The dead were identified as Shahjahan, 40, who hailed from Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar, and Nasir, 28, who hailed from Austagram's Kagji village.

OC Amin said that locals allege the two had attempted to steal a buffalo from the home of one Hira Mia from Monoharpur village in Bangalpara Union early in the morning. A crowd then caught the two of them f...