Narayanganj, May 21 -- A local leader of BNP was stabbed to death by some miscreants at Kaunda in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj district early Thursday.

The deceased was identified as Osman Goni, office secretary of Araihazar Upazila unit BNP and son of Abdur Rashid of Boro Binai Char in the upazila.

Witnesses said a group of armed miscreants waylaid Osman Goni, also the general secretary of Brahmandi union unit BNP, on Wednesday night and stabbed him indiscriminately, leaving him injured.

Later, he was taken to a local hospital from there he was shifted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries at night.

Mahfuz Bhuiyan Babul, a witness said, "We had bought a piece of land in Kaundar Chak, and workers...