A Youth Congress worker was hacked to death at Edayannur under the Mattannur police station limits here late on Monday by a four-member gang apparently as a sequel to the recent clashes between workers of the CPI(M) and the Congress. According to the police, S.V. Shuhaib, 29, was fatally attacked while he was at a roadside eatery at Edayannur with his friends at around 11 p.m. on Monday. The police said that the assailants came in a car with a "For Registration' sticker on its number plate and hacked the youth to death. The assailants also threw crude bombs to scare away people present there. Shuhaib's friends, identified as Noushad, 27, and Riyaz, 27, were injured while they tried to protect him, the police said. He succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Thalassery, the police said. Death threat The police said that Shuhaib had been under threat over the past one month following a clash between local CPI(M) and Congress workers. When CPI(M) workers vandalised the local Congress office in connection with a dispute over a political issue in a school, Congress workers led by Shuhaib intercepted and manhandled the CPI(M) workers who had come in a vehicle to vandalise the office. A video footage shows a group of suspected CPI(M) workers taking out a procession following the incident and shouting slogans apparently threatening to kill Shuhaib. "The police are on the hunt for the assailants though they have not been identified," Inspector General of Police Mahipal Yadav told The Hindu. Hartal observed The Congress observed a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district in protest against the murder. Shuhaib's body was taken to Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, for post-mortem examination. Additional forces have been deployed in Mattannur.