Two masked youths hacked a local leader of Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad with sharp weapons in front of his house in the town's Ramkrishna Palli yesterday afternoon.

The victim is Alok Sen, 58, general secretary of the parishad's Faridpur unit.

He was initially treated at Faridpur Medical College Hospital (FMCH) for injuries to his arms before being sent to Dhaka.

Alok's wife Shikha Ghosh said somebody called his husband out from their house around 4:00pm. As he crossed the gate and headed towards the road before the house, the assailants started hacking him with sharp weapons.

“Hearing my husband screaming for help, I ran out of the house and embraced him. But two youths pushed me aside and hacked him several times before fleeing,” she added.

Talking to this correspondent at the FMCH, Alok said he had no enmity towards anybody and that he didn't know why he became a target of assailants.

Victim's neighbour Gulzar Hossain, who took him to the hospital, said he found Alok lying in a pool of blood by the side of the road.

Faridpur Civil Surgeon Asit Ranjan Das said the victim bled profusely from deep cuts to his arms. “His condition improved slightly after he was given two bags of blood.”

Dipankar Kumar, assistant registrar at the surgery department of FMCH, said it took doctors over an hour to stop the bleeding.

OC Nazimuddin of Faridpur Sadar Police Station said police didn't receive any complaints about the attack.