Newsman injured in attack

Our Correspondent, Madaripur

A journalist was injured in an attack allegedly by a local Awami League leader in Kalkini upazila yesterday morning. Khairul Alam, Kalkini correspondent of Bangla daily Prothom Alo, is now undergoing treatment at the upazila health complex. Kalkini press club secretary Shahidul Islam said, recently a number of reports were published in newspapers on test relief (TR) corruption, land grabbing allegedly involving the municipality AL president Delware Hossain Dulal. Angered, Dulal along with his supporters obstructed the agents at Bhua Ghata from selling papers at around 8:00am. When local newsmen went to the paper stand they came under the attack, said Shahidul, adding that Khairul sustained injuries in his head.x

16 rescued from traffickers

Our Correspondent, Benapoiejessore

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 16 people from Sadipur border yesterday while they were being trafficked to India. The victims, including four women and two children, hailed from different areas of Bhola, Narail and Gopalganj districts. Acting on a tip-off, a BGB team raided the area in the morning and rescued the 16, from the border point, said Subedar Badsha Mia, in-charge of Benapole BGB camp. However, none was arrested.

Train derails in Comilla

UNB, Camilla

Train movement on two routes — Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Sylhet —was disrupted for over three hours yesterday as a train derailed in Comilla Sadar Dakkhin upazila. Railway sources said, two wheels of a compartment of a Dhaka-bound container-laden train from Chittagong veered off the track near Bijoypur at about 11:30am, snapping rail communications between the capital and the two districts. However, no causality was reported. Train movement on the routes resumed at about 2:45pm as a relief train from Laksham rushed to the spot and rescued the derailed train.

Strike paralyses land ports

Our Correspondent, chapainawabganj

Export and import through Sonamsjid land port here remained suspended since yesterday morning due to a strike enforced by lorry drivers and labourers in the Indian side of Mohodipur land port in Maldah in Paschimbanga. A gang of robbers blocked the Maldah-Mohodipur land port road beaten up a few lorry drivers and snatched their money and mobile phone sets on Friday night. At that time the goods laden trucks were coming to Mohodipur land port from different areas in India. Protesting the incident, Indian lorry drivers and labourers of Mohodipur land port called strike from Saturday morning.