India, May 4 -- A 24-year-old pharmacist in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki was allegedly chased and beaten to death with sticks and rods by unidentified people over a piece of land, police said on Sunday.

The victim, identified as Satyendra Vishwakarma, was asleep in his clinic in Malouli village when three assailants arrived on a motorcycle around midnight. They posed as customers and knocked on the clinic door, seeking medicines.

But as soon as Vishwakarma opened the door, they attacked him, police were quoted as saying by the news agency PTI.

As per village locals, the pharmacist tried to escape the attackers but was chased down and then beaten with sticks.

Vivek Chandra Nag, a local youth, tried to stop the assailants, but he was also ...