Rajshahi, April 11 -- Miscreants stabbed a farmer to death and left his body at a maize field in Bagha upazila of Rajshahi, said police on Friday morning.

The deceased was identified as Shafiqul Islam, 35, son of Fazal Sheikh of Charrajapur union under the upazila. He was the father of two children.

Locals said Shafiqul went to a field nearby his house to collect grass for cattle on Thursday afternoon and didn't return home till the evening.

Farmer beaten to death for protecting his watermelon field in Barishal

Later, the maize field's guard Hablu found the blood-stained body lying inside the cropland and informed the victim's nephew.

After rescue, he was taken to Bagha Upazila Health Complex where physicians declared him dead.

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