A young man was chopped to death by miscreants at a clothes store in the Town Hall area of the district town on Sunday evening.
Witnesses said a group of four miscreants chased Bappa Islam Pappu, 20, son of Motaleb Hossain of Ghop Noyapara Road area in the town, from the Town Hall ground around 6:30pm.
Pappu took shelter in a clothes store of Zila Parishad Market to flee the attackers.
However, the hoodlums swooped on the youth at the shop and hacked him indiscriminately in public, leaving him inured.
He was taken to Jessore General Hospital where doctors declared him dead, said Dr Yusuf Ali, a physician at the emergency unit of the hospital.
Officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station M Ilias Hossain said they were investigating the incident.