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Day-long clashes over vote rigging'

Police firing kills one in Nilphamari

By Staff Correspondent
A journalist was killed and five persons were injured when police opened fire on a militant procession in Nilphamari town yesterday, protesting alleged vote riggigg and fictitious results, according to reports received in Dhaka
Md Kamruzzaman. a crib reporter of the local Weekly Nil-sagar. was shot dead during day-long clashes between mob and police.
A UNB report, however, said that another unidentified person was killed.
The district administration had clamped Section 144 in the town for an indefinite period. banning all processions and gatherings. It has deployed
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BDR to check further violence.
Witnesses said that the mob attacked the residences of the Deputy Commissioner and other officials of the district administration and police.
The DC, Faiz An med, told The Daily Star over telephone that clashes erupted following a report telecast Sunday night on the election victory of Dewan Nurunnabi. BNP candidate from Nilphamari-2 constituency.
The DC said the Election Commission had ordered repelling in the constituency.
The DC further said that after the news was telecast, scattered processions were brought out late Sunday night protesting what the organisers
termed "vote rigging and fictitious results."
One of the processions, allegedly led by independent candidate Ahsan Ahmed Hasan, entered the residence of the iDC and ransacked furniture.
Police officials there said the candidate was later arrested from his residence^
When the news of his arrest spread in the town yesterday morning, a militant procession started from the local Paurasabha ground at about 10:30 am. It was halted by police near Khairat Hossain Market.
The procession broke the police cordon and started pelting stones at police and ex-plotting hand bombs 1
Police lobbed tear, gas shells, used batons and opened fire which left Kamnizzaman killed and five injured.
Later, the mob attacked some 30 residences of the district officials at the Staff Quar-iers and officials of the law • enforcing agencies elsewhere in the town.
The DC said the mob'also set fire to the residence of a first class magistrate, Abdul Majid.
Witnesses said the mob also attacked a vehicle of the fire brigade and stormed its station in Puran Bazar area of the
Three of the injured — Sanu, Pradip and Shamsul Huq — were shifted to Rangpur Medical College from Nll-phamari Sadar Hospital In a. critical state.
Local Journalists said that Ihe body of their colleague was not returned on demand and kept at the local police station till the filing of this report at about midnight.
A tense situation is prevailing in Nilphamari town.