Bangladesh death toll rises to 47, clashes continue
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| Bangladeshi Hindus wave black flags |
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| Bangladeshi Hindus protest against Jamaat-e-Islami activists in Dhaka on Saturday. |
At least three people were killed and hundreds were injured in attacks on law enforcement officials and ruling party men on Friday by activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, the report said.
On Saturday, a man was killed and 10 others were injured in a gunfight between Jamaat activists and police in Satkania upazila of Chittagong. Jamaat activists also vandalised two hospitals, four vehicles and a petrol pump in Comilla town, the report said.
According to witnesses at the scene, men belonging to Jamaat, and its student wing, Shibir, started throwing brick chips and vandalised two local hospitals, four vehicles and a petrol pump early on Saturday.
Jamaat-Shibir have wreaked havoc in the country since Thursday when a war crimes tribunal sentenced Jamaat vice president to death for crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War, according to the report.
Early on Saturday, unidentified miscreants set fire to a Hindu temple and houses of two Hindu Awami League men in different parts of Morelganj upazila in Bagerhat, the report said.
Sources say the temple was set fire by members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, an ally of the Jamaat.
On Friday night, detectives arrested five students of North South University (NSU) for their alleged involvement in the killing of Shahbag blogger Ahmed Rajib Haidar, who was found stabbed in Dhaka’s Mirpur area on February 15, a report said.
Haidar, a Shahbagh movement activist, was found stabbed dead near his residence in the city’s Mirpur area on February 15.
Also on Friday, Jamaat-Shibir activists blocked highways, threw brick chips at police, vandalised vehicles and roadside shops, and removed railway sleepers disrupting rail commutation, according to the report.
Courtesy: NITI CENTRAL
