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5 hurt as BCL factions clash

10 vehicles, 6 shops vandalised

Staff Correspondent, ag
At least five Bangladesh Chhatra League activists sustained injuries in a factional brawl at GEC intersection in Chittagong city yesterday.
Six business establishments and some 10 vehicles were also vandalised in the clash.
Of the injured, Md Farhad, 25, and MA Halim Shikder Mithu, 28, were admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital, said Pankaj Barua, assistant sub-inspector of CMCH police camp.
The identities of the other injured, who were admitted to different city hospitals, could not be known immediately.
Sources said there was a longstanding conflict between the supporters of Wasim Uddin and Arshadul Alam Bachchu, president and general secretary of the BCL Omar Gani MES College unit.
Yesterday, both the groups got locked in a clash at GEC intersection at around 4:30pm, eyewitnesses said. They used firearms, machetes in the half-an-hour clash.
During the fighting, some 10 vehicles parked in front of the IFCO Complex, and six business establishments, including Bata Bazar, a showroom of Singer, Chashma Bazar and VIP Optics were vandalised.
A local in the area said the unruly BCL activists had brandished machetes and fired gunshots in the presence of the police.
Denying any involvement in the clash and vandalism, Yusuf Khan, organising secretary of the BCL college unit and a follower of the Wasim group, said
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Bachchu's supporters had attacked Yasir Arafat Kachi, a BCL activist loyal to Wasim, at around 1:00pm.
As the news spread, their supporters got agitated and gathered at GEC intersection, he added.
Contacted, Nurul Azim Rony, general secretary of the BCL city unit, said the clash was a sequel to earlier conflicts over the establishment of supremacy on the college campus.
He said the BCL would take action against the party men responsible for the incident.
Confirming the BCL infighting, Dipak Jyoti Khisha, assistant commissioner (Panchlaish zone) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police, said the department was looking into the matter.
Nobody was arrested and no case was filed till the filing of the report as of 6:00pm.
Despite repeated attempts, Wasim and Bachchu could not be reached over the phone.