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Jamaat, BNP pounce on AL's election rally

20 injured; 40 motorbikes burnt

Our Correspondent, Lalmonirhat
Jamaat-Shibir and BNP men allegedly attacked Awami League activists, who gathered for an election campaign, in Lalmonirhat yesterday afternoon injuring 30 people.
The injured - 10 stabbed and the rest beaten up - were admitted to Hatibandha and Patgram upazila health complexes. The condition of the stab injured was critical, doctors said.
The attackers also set fire to the stage, which had been erected at the Bawra High School playground in Lalmonirhat for the campaign, and at least 40 motorcycles of the campaigners.
Local Awami League organised a programme at the high school as part of the campaign for former state minister for primary and mass education Motahar
Hossain, who is going to contest the 10th parliamentary' election from Lahnonirhat-1 constituency (Hatibandha and Patgram upazila).
Some 150 people, including Awami League supporters, gathered at the venue where Motahar was supposed to deliver a speech at 5:00pm.
But minutes before his arrival, a group of 200 Jamaat-Shibir and BNP men carrying sharp weapons swooped on the crowd at the venue, witnesses said.
Local people ran frantically towards safety. When Awami League men rushed to their motorcycles they found at least 40 of those burnt, said Bawra union AL president Rabiul Islam Miron.
Tension brewed in the area after the incident.
Bawra union BNP president Shamsul Alam and Jamaat-e-Islami president
Mawlana Zakir Hossain denied the allegation that their party activists or supporters were involved in the attack.
Local sources, however, said they could identify many of the attackers who used to participate in BNP-Jamaat rallies.
Motahar told The Daily Star that he had asked police to deploy more law enforcers in the area and demanded arrest of the attackers immediately.
Additional police and joint forces were deployed on the spot soon after the attack, said Officer-in-Charge of Patgram Police Station Sohrab Hossain.
Police were also trying to arrest the attackers, OC added.
Many Hindu families and Awami League men fled from Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat facing repeated threats by Jamaat-Shibir men.
FROM PAGAE 1
On Monday, unidentified miscreants vandalised a temple in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat, known as a den of Jamaat-Shibir activists. On the night of the day, Jamaat-Shibir activists also removed 100 fishplates at two points of Lalmonirhat-Burirnari route in Patgram upazila to disrupt rail communications.