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DHAKA, Saturday (AFP) Police were on Saturday looking for suspected members of a banned leftwing group for killing six people in western Bangladesh.

Police said the victims were asleep in their homes in Atrai village in Naogaon district when masked men slit their throats Friday.

Officials in Naogaon, 190 kilometres (120 miles) west of Dhaka, were trying to ascertain the motive behind the killings. Before the attackers fled they fired gunshots in the air and shouted slogans of the Purbo Banglar Communist Party, banned since Bangladesh's independence in 1971.

The Daily Star newspaper, quoting villagers, said the killings could be linked to a land dipute. Anwar Hossain, a police chief in western Bangladesh, told the newspaper that a hunt was on for the killers.

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