Guwahati, Feb. 22 -- A prominent member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was fatally attacked in Dhaka, succumbing to injuries inflicted by assailants in front of his wife, according to police reports.

Mohammad Babul Mia, former vice-president of the BNP's Kulla union unit, was harvesting mustard with his wife, Yasmin Begum, near the Akshirnagar Housing area of Dhamrai upazila on Friday afternoon when the attack occurred.

Yasmin Begum alleges the attack stemmed from a long-standing dispute over the Akshirnagar Housing real estate project. She claims that despite her husband's lack of direct involvement, local individuals, identified as Afsar, Arshad, and Monir, had been threatening them.

"They brutally beat him with sticks and...