10 injured in Tangail BNP factional clash
At least 10 people, including two policemen, were injured in a clash between two factions of BNP in the town yesterday.
Police arrested 11 people during the incident. They also seized a private car and 12 machetes from the spot.
Police and witnesses said the newly formed commmittee of Tangail district unit of BNP organised a member collection and renewal programme.
National standing committee member of the party Nazrul Islam Khan and vice chairman Maj Gen (rtd) Mahmudul Hasan were supposed to attend the programme as the chief guest and special guest respectively.
However, just before the programme started, leaders and activists of a faction carried out an attack and foiled the programme.
Police later fired four tear gas shells and 12 blank shots to bring the situation under control.
Advocate Farhad Iqbal, general secretary of district unit of BNP, alleged that ruling party men, in guise of BNP men, and also police launched the attack.
Hasanuzzamil Shaheen, a vice president who resigned from the committee, said the committee was formed by dropping contributing leaders and activists.
The angry party men went to the programme for agitating against the pocket committee and the pocket committee supporters launched attack on them, he said.
OC Nazmul Haque Bhuiyan of Tangail Model Police Station said the law enforcers did not help any of the groups and they just dispersed the both groups during the clash.
Additional police have been deployed at different important places in the town to avoid any further trouble.
Mentionable, the committee was formed on May 26 comprising Shamsul Alam Tofa and Farhad Iqbal as president and general secretary respectively, party men said.
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