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200 hurt in AL-BNP clashes
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said Kazi Shanawaz, officer-in-charge of Jamalpur Sadar Police Station.
Police arrested six BNP men from the scene, the OC added.
In Araihazar, Narayanganj, at least 13 people, including three policemen, were injured in a clash between police and the opposition party.
Lutfar Rahman Abdu, former joint convener of Narayanganj BNP, said the activists were marching on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway around 1:15pm when police suddenly attacked them and used firearms, leaving 10 injured.
OC Azizul Haque of Araihazar Police Station said the BNP activists threw brick chips at policemen who were trying to clear the road. The police retaliated with rubber bullets and teargas shells.
Three policemen were injured, he added.
In Bogura’s Adamdighi and Sonatala upazilas, opposition activists said police foiled their programmes. However, the latter refuted the allegation.
In Sirajganj town, at least 10 people were injured and five motorcycles were set on fire during a clash between AL and BNP men in the Paikpara area.
In Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat, at least six BNP men were injured in an attack by AL activists, locals said. However, the AL refuted it.
Police said no clash happened.
In Naogaon, at least five BNP men were injured in an attack allegedly by the AL men in Tilokpur area.
However, AL leaders said the BNP activists had beaten up Chhatra League activists.
In Noakhali, BNP leaders alleged that over 50 activists were injured in six incidents of attack by the AL men.
But AL leaders said the clash happened between two groups of BNP activists.
In Bhola, BNP leaders alleged that over 50 of them were injured in eight separate incidents of attack in three upazilas. The AL refuted the allegations.
In Hnila Union of Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, at least 15 people were injured and an AL leader’s car was vandalised during a clash.
Leaders of both parties blamed each other.
Police said additional law enforcement personnel were deployed to avoid further violence.
In Sreepur upazila of Gazipur, the BNP said attacks by the AL left nine of their activists injured. But AL leaders said they were the ones who got attacked by firearms-wielding BNP men.
A photo in which a man brandishing a firearm from a BNP procession went viral on social media.
[Our correspondents from the districts contributed to the story.]

Russia says it staged major strike on Ukrainian energy facilities
REUTERS
Russia carried out a “massive strike” on critically important energy facilities of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex on Friday, the Russian defence ministry said yesterday.
In a daily update, the ministry did not identify the energy facilities it claimed to have hit. It said the strike had also blocked the transport of foreign weapons and ammunition by rail to battlegrounds in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s armed forces said late on Friday that Russian forces had fired more than 100 missiles and mounted 12 air and 20 shelling attacks. It said 61 Russian cruise missiles were destroyed.
Ukraine’s Energy Minister German Galushchenko said Russia had hit power facilities in six regions with missiles and drones, causing blackouts across most of the country.
Russia has repeatedly attacked civilian infrastructure far from the front lines, leaving millions of Ukrainians without power, heat or water for days at a time in the middle of winter.