Fifty injured in BNP-Jamaat clash, Navy deployed

Jamaat Ameer claims BNP people tried to humiliate him by stripping him of his clothes in the market

Local correspondent

BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) clashed in Chawkbazar of Jinnagar Union in Char Fashion, Bhola. At least 50 leaders and activists from both sides were injured in the bloody clash.

Executive magistrates, police and navy have been deployed to control the situation.

Today, Monday, December 15, at 10 am, a verbal altercation between a BNP leader and a Jamaat leader over an election campaign in Jinnagar Ward No. 9 in Chawkbazar turned into a clash. Following this incident, Jamaat-Shibir terrorists launched coordinated attacks from different places in microbuses.

The entire area turned into a battlefield with intermittent clashes involving sticks and sharp weapons.

Char Fashion Upazila Jamaat Amir Mir Sharif claims that when he went to the election campaign, BNP members tried to grab his clothes. At one stage, they beat him severely. Later, when his leaders and activists rescued him and took him to the hospital, a second attack was carried out there.

He claimed that 25 Jamaat-Shibir leaders and activists were injured in the incident.

Meanwhile, denying the allegations, former general secretary of the municipal BNP, Khairul Islam Sohel, said, “The Jamal, who was the focus of the clash, was an Awami League member before August 5, and is now a Jamaat member. He has returned to Jamaat disguised under the lungi of the Awami League – he had an argument with our worker about this. Later, to take revenge, the terrorists of Jamaat-Shibir went to Char Fashion in a microbus and attacked our leaders and workers.”

Noting that 20-30 leaders and activists of various BNP organizations were injured in the incident, Sohel said that Jamaat has made false allegations against BNP to thwart the upcoming elections.

According to the latest information, 16 of the injured from both sides have been admitted to Char Fashion Hospital in critical condition. The rest have received primary treatment locally.

In this regard, Upazila Assistant Commissioner Land and Executive Magistrate Emdadul Haque said that the situation is currently calm.