A group of some unidentified robbers thrashed a 40-year-old man to death at Rudrapur in ward 5 of Khajura Rural Municipality in Banke district in the wee hours on Thursday. 

According to Chief District Officer Shrawan Kumar Pokharel, Santosh Kathariya was beaten to death in the incident. 

The robbers assaulted Kathariya with firewood planks before looting his house. A critically injured Kathariya died in the course of treatment in Nepalgunj Nursing Home. 

A search is on to nab the assailants involved in the crime, said police.