Dhaka, July 3 -- A sweetmeat shop worker has reportedly been hacked to death by another worker in the city's Jatrabari area.

The deceased was identified as Amzad Hossain, 38, a worker of Karnaphuli Sweetmeat in Kajla Bridge area and son of late Muslim Khan of Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar upazila.

Mazharul Islam, officer-in-charge of Jatrabari Police Station, said Amzad along with his fellow worker who joined the job few days ago went to sleep at the shop on Tuesday night.

The shop owner found the body while the other worker missing when he opened the shop on Wednesday afternoon, he said, adding that Amzad might have been killed by his colleague sometime on Tuesday night.

Police recovered the body and sent it to Mitford Hospital morgue fo...