A Jubo League activist was beaten to death by a gang of gamblers at Maijdee in Noakhali on Sunday night.

The deceased was identified as Redwan Hossain Ledu, 22, son of Abdul Motaleb of Pashchim Maijdee.

Officer-in-Charge Anwar Hossain of Sudharam Model Police Station quoted locals as saying that gamblers Rubel and his accomplices swooped on Redwan as he protested gabling in the area at around 11:00pm.

They beat him up mercilessly and thrashed his head with bricks. He died on the spot.

Being informed, police went to the spot, recovered the body and sent it to Noakhali Abdul Malek Ukil Medical College Hospital for autopsy. Rubel and his accomplices had gone into hiding soon after the incident.

Ahsan Habib Hasan, joint-convener of the district unit of Jubo League, claimed that Redwan was a local Jubo League activist.