100 injured as villagers clash over murder of college boy
Sylhet Bureau :
More than one hundred people, including 12 police personnel, were injured as inhabitants of two villages clashed at Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj on Wednesday night over checking CCTV footage for searching evidence of murder of a college student. The student was killed during a fight between two gangs of teens.
A number of shops in Nabiganj upazila headquarters were vandalised and several motorcycles were also torched during three-hour long attacks and counter-attacks between the rival sides. The clash began at about 8:00pm and ended at about 11:00pm, local people said.
On Tuesday night, Raisul Haque Tahsin, 19, a Class XII student of Nabiganj Government College, was stabbed to death in a clash between two groups of youngsters over establishing dominance in the area.
Local people said that a sub-inspector of the Nabiganj police station on Wednesday evening went to check footage recorded on a closed-circuit television camera installed in front of a market where Tahsin was killed.
At that time, Nabiganj Municipality Councilor Nanu Miah, also a resident of Anmanu village, locked in an altercation with the market owner, Syed Khaledur Rahman, a resident of Inatabad village and also chairman of the Kurshi union of the Nabiganj upazila, they said.
