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20 injured as patients clash with Ansars at BSMMU

Staff Correspondent
At least 20 people, including Ansars, patients and relatives accompanying them, were injured when Ansars clashed with them at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital yesterday.
Witnesses said the half an hour clash started around 10:45am when Ansar member Sultan Ahmed pushed a middle-aged man who was standing in a queue in front of the outdoor seption in Block-C. They were involved in an altercation about standing in the queue.
The man fell on a female patient, who came to the hospital with her five-month-old baby, and her husband Jasim became furious and slapped Sultan.
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Sultan then rushed to BSMMU Ansar Camp and called in his colleagues who charged truncheons indiscriminately on patients in the queue and their relatives. The Ansars also took Jasim to their camp.
Jasim's wife and over 100 people present there went to the camp to protest They pelted Ansars with brickbats and the Ansars retaliated by charging truncheons indiscriminately.
The BSMMU authorities, however, managed to rescue Jasim.
Later, police rushed to the scene and brought the situation under control.
Ansar sources said six Ansars, including Imarat. Hafiz and Shah Jalal, were injured in the attack.
At least 14 patients and their relatives were injured in the truncheoncharge.
The BSMMU authorities formed a four-member committee headed by Prof Ali Kawsar to probe the incident.
Sultan told The Daily Star, "We are posted here [BSMMU] so that none can violate the rules and everybody gets the benefit of queuing. I just tried to move him since the man was in the wrong queue."
Camp CommandcrTaieb Ali said, "As the man attacked an Ansar, other Ansars did not take it lightly and took the man to (he camp 30 feet away from the scene."
Talking to The Daily Star, he alleged that a number of BSMMU employees, brokers and representatives of different pharmaceuticals and diagnostic centres, who cannot carry out their illegal activities due to the presence of Ansars, took the opportunity and attacked Ansars.