A journalist was hacked to death by between six and seven people at Eidgah market in the Gazipur city’s Chandana chowrasta under Bason police station area on Thursday night, reportedly for sharing a video report on extortion.

Md Asaduzzaman Tuhin, a district correspondent of a Bangla daily Dainik Pratidiner Kajog, was killed at about 8:00pm on Thursday.

Gazipur Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner Rabiul Islam said that the police had recovered the body from the spot on information and sent it to the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital for autopsy.

He, however, claimed that he could not know the cause of the murder immediately, but the process for taking legal actions was under way.