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Police - Jamaatmen clashes leave 50 hurt in N'ganj

From Our Correspondent
NARAYANGANJ. Feb 2: At least 50 people were injured In this port town Tuesday in clashes between police and Jamaat-Shibir-Freedom Party activists. Of the injured 15 were police men.
Police fired warning shots and lobbed several dozen teargas shells to disperse several hundred stick-wielding fundamentalist activists who tried to force their way to the Eidgah Maidan listen to DclWar Hossain Saidee's 'tafslr mahfil" (religious gathering) violating. Section 144.
Police alleged that the fundamentalist activists fired pistol and cut-rifle shots and also hurled more than a dozen cocktails during the three-hour Intermittent clashes.
The Injured, most of whom were given first aid at the local hospital and clinics, included the officer-in-charge of Nafa-yanganj and Fatullah police
stations.
Police arrested 10 Shibir-Frcedom Party activists from the spot, thana sources said.
Witnesses said that the residents mostly children of the J am tala area, the trouble spot, fell sick as tear-gas enveloped the area.
Tension has been generating in the town over a week following simultaneous announcements of the two-day tafslr mahfil by Jamaat-backed Islamic Janakallyan Majlish and a public rally by the Ghatak Dalal Ntrmul Samannye Committee at the same venue.
The district administration Monday enforced Section 144 banning public gathering at the maidan ' and deployed police around the venue, to avert possible clashes between rival groups.
On Tuesday the female students of Government TolaramCollege and Government Women's College brought out a procession wielding brooms In support of the Nirmul body programme. The male supporters of the Nirmul body also brought a procession In the town on the same day. The processionists however dispersed after police assured them that there would be no "mahflT or rally on the venue.
Later, the Jamaat-Shtblr-Freedom Party activists began marching towards the venue blasting bombs and breaking the police barricades. Police then baton-charged and tear-gased the processionists and later fired warning shots.
The fundamentalist activists fought a three-hour pitched battle with police from 3 pm.
During the clashes, police sub-inspector Abdul Bari assaulted Inqilab Staff photo-journalist Shafiuddtn Bttu and ordered hfs forces to throw him In a nearby ditch. Bitu was rescued by local reporters, witnesses said.
A local Jamaat-e-Islamt leader preferring anonymity satd Saidee was tn the town but did not disclose his where abouts
He satd that the mahfil would now be today (Wednesday).
Later, In the evening the Nirmul Committee organised a rally at the Chashara Square with Its local leader Gtasuddln Blrpratlk In the chair The committee leaders urged the people to resist the activities of 'communal and controver sial element" Saidee across the country
The rally was addressed among others, by Tamljuddln Kezvt and Shamlm Osman