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Mayhem in Sitakunda

4 bullet-hit, vehicles burnt as BNP-Jamaat activists clash with cops

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Ctg
At least four people were bullet-hit and several others injured as BNP-Jamaat activists clashed with police in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong yesterday.
The unruly activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami also vandalised dozens of vehicles and set fire to some on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Bypass, Barabkunda and Sadar areas in the upazila.
Bullet-hit Karimul Mawla, 35, and Abul Bashar, 70, Liza Begum, 22, and Mohammed Shamim, 38, were admitted to Sitakunda Upazila Health Complex, said on-duty doctor of the hospital Shahida Akhter.
Mohammed Rafiq, 30, who was hit with stones in the head, and Zahid Khan, 18, were also admitted to the hospital, she said.
Of the injured, Karimul and Rafiq were referred to FROM PAGE 16
Chittagong Medical College Hospital as their condition deteriorated, she added.
The clash started when hundreds of BNP-Jamaat activists blocked the Dhaka-Chittagong highway after emerging from a protest rally held in the Sadar area around 4:30pm, said SM Bodiuzzaman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Sitakunda Police Station.
They went berserk, pelted the police with brick chips, and blasted several crude bombs as police tried to disperse them from the road, said police and eyewitnesses.
Police had fired rubber bullets and tear gas shells in response, leading to the clash, he added.
Iqbal Ali, assistant superintendent of police of Sitakunda circle, said some of the police personnel were also injured in
the clash. He, however, could not ascertain the number.
OC Zakir Hossain of Highway Police's Bar Awlia outpost in Sitakunda said nearly 52 kilometres of the highway was blocked, suspending vehicular movement on the road.
Sporadic clashes were going on, Shahin Imran, upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of Sitakunda, told The Daily Star over the telephone around 7:30pm.
Meanwhile, railway communication between Dhaka and Chittagong became normal around 8:30pm, according to the control room of Bangladesh Railway's East Zone.
It said five trains to and from Chittagong had stuck at different points as BNP-Jamaat supporters took position on the rail