BNP’s 48 hrs hartal: 14 hurt during BNP-cop clash in Sunamganj

Staff Reporter  :
At least 14 people, including five police personnel and seven BNP men, were injured during a clash between the party activists and police in Sunamganj on Sunday morning.

The clash broke out around 11:00 am between the police and the leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who brought out a procession in support of a 48-hour hartal in Sunamganj on Sunday morning. The clash broke out when police obstructed them.

At the time, police opened fire and tear gas shells when the BNP men threw brick chips at them during the clash in the Old Bus Stand area of the town, just in front of BNP office.

During the clash, Additional police super (sadar circle) Zahidul Islam Khan, Sadar Model police station officer-in-charge Ikhtiar Uddin Chowdhury and several other police members sustained injuries, claimed the police.

In this regard, additional police super in Sunamganj, Rajan Kumar Das, said some 30-40 BNP men tried to erect an obstacle on the road.

The clash broke out when the police obstructed them. They tried to attack police from two sides but the law enforcement brought the situation under control. The situation is calm now, he added.

Nurul Islam Nurul, general secretary of Sunamganj district unit BNP, alleged that leaders and activists of BNP and its affiliated organisations brought out peaceful procession at Arefinnagar under Sunamganj municipality in the morning but law enforcers obstructed them and attacked the procession.