A young man was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants at Hatikata in Homna upazila yesterday morning. The deceased was identified as Nasir, son of Sattar Mia of Daulatpur village in the upazila.

Md Fazle Rabbi, officer-in-charge of Homna Police Station, said some unidentified persons called Nasir from his house in the night. Locals spotted the chopped body in the morning at Hatikata Beel and informed police.

Being informed police recovered the body and sent it to Cumilla Medical College Hospital for autopsy, said the OC. Police initially assumed that he might have been killed as a sequel of previous enmity.