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JCD factions rock RU with gunfight

10 injured; VC's residence hemmed in over leader's arrest

Ru Correspondent
At least lOpcopleincludinga photo-Journalist were injured as two armed factions of the Jatiyatabadi Chatra Dal (JCD),student frontofthe ruling BNP, engaged in a gunfight at Rajshahi University (RU) yesterday.
The clash began in the afternoon when 50 armed cadres of the RU JCD Convenor Nuruzzaman Likhon's group, led by Miran and Shafin, attacked the Joint Convenor Aslam Reza's group at Sher-e Bangla Hall,
over establishing supremacy in the committeeof tire organisation.
Both the groups blasted nearly 15 crackers at the hall gate and exchanged a number of gunshots duringthehalf-an-hourlongfight.
The police stood by while the clash was going on. Later, when the gunshots stopped, they charged 10 teargas shells and blank fired to disperse thegroups.
However, Faizur Rahman, offi-cer-in-charge of the Motihar Police
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Station said that they used six teargas shells and one bullet during the clashes.
About their silent role during the clashes, West Regional Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) Lokman Hakim said that police could not take action inside the campus without the order oftheaulhority.
However. RU Vice chancellor Prof Altaf I lossain said that the authority asked all concerned to take action against responsible persons.
The clashes occurred when State Minister for Home Affairs lutfozzaman Babar, was attending a Rajshahi divisional meeting on the lawandorder.
RU doctors rushed to the Sher-e Bangla and Abdul Latif halls where the groups took shelter after police action and treated the injured.
Earlier in the morning; Aslam Rana stnjjw a shriwWiwn with'upen firearms and looked for tiieir opponents on the campus. Failing to find any ol them, the Gorki-Rana group went to Sher-e-Bangla hall
Later, police escorted the Miran-Sliafin group, who rounded the campus with open arms and attacked the Sher-e-BanglahalL
Among the injured, RU JCD convening committee member Adil Shahrlar Gorki received a bullet wound while JCD activists Nazmul, Shafiqul. Atiqur and Manik received wounds from splinters. The police arrested Gorki when he sneaked out of the hall for treaunent in hospital. The supporters of Gorki immediately laid siegetotheresidenceoftheVC, threatening to cripple the university if their injured leader was not released.
A photojournalist. Nazrul Islam Zulu of the daily Jugantor, was attacked when he was snapping armed JCD cadres in action in front of police. JCD men led by Rumel. Miran and Shafin beat him mercilessly with iron rods while police looked on at 10 yardsoffthescene.
loumalists staged an immediate protest of the attack, taking out a procession.