CT News Online
At least 50 people,
including two journalists, were injured in a clash between police and BNP men
during the party's human chain programme in Sayestanagar of Habiganj upazila on
Sunday.
The clash took place
around 12:30pm today (10 December) when police lobbed tear gas shells and fired
rubber bullets to disperse them.
Habiganj sadar police
station Officer-in-charge Ajay Chandra Dev said he and six other police
officers were injured when BNP activists attacked them.
"Police arrested
one person. He is being interrogated. At present the situation is calm,"
he added.
Kamal Uddin Selim, joint convener of district unit BNP, said the party leaders and activists and its associate bodies were holding a human chain programme in front of the BNP office this morning.
"The clash broke
out when the police attacked us as we were wrapping up our programme," he
added.
Two journalists, My TV correspondent Niranjan Goswami and Desh TV correspondent Amir Hamza, were seriously injured.
They were treated in Habiganj and were later sent to Dhaka.
At one stage of the BNP's programme, police obstructed them, triggering a heated argument. Amid a chase and counter-chase, a clash broke out, according to locals.
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