Patna, Aug 27 - A daily wage labourer in Bihar was blinded and then beaten to death allegedly by a group of powerful villagers over a land dispute, police said Thursday.

Chhotelal Bind, who was in his 20s, was killed Wednesday in Aurangabad's Lohri village, about 100 km from here, over a small piece of land, police said.

'The victim was blinded after his eyes were badly damaged and then he was beaten to death. Preliminary investigations suggest that the dispute was over land,' a police official said.

Over half a dozen people have been named as accused in the case.

Over 50 cases of lynching have been reported from the state over the last two-and-half months.