Angry mob lynched two suspected robbers and left another one critically injured in Cumilla's Muradnagar early Friday, police said.
However, the identities of the deceased could not immediately be confirmed.
After the recent series of robberies in Palasuta village and surrounding areas, villagers are keeping a vigil at night to nab the criminals.
They caught the three robbers with local weapons as they took refuge at a Palasuta house after robbing villagers in another place of the upazila, Muradnagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Kamruzzaman Talukdar said.
After that, the locals surrounded the robbers and started assaulting them, leaving two of them dead and other seriously injured, the OC said.
The injured robber is undergoing treatment at Cumilla Medical College Hospital and still not out of the woods.
The bodies were sent to the hospital morgue for post-mortem, the OC said.