Shibbari locals passing miserable days
They returned to their residences near Atia Mahal in Sylhet’s Shibbari area yesterday when they heard all the militants were killed during a raid in the building on Monday.
But now the people in the area, living within 250 yards of the building where the army-led "Operation Twilight" was conducted, are suffering from an acute crisis of groceries and have interrupted or no gas supply at all.
“We returned to our house yesterday afternoon. We wanted to buy food from the nearby kitchen market. But we couldn’t as police didn’t allow us to go far,” said Sirajul Islam, a resident nearby the green-coloured five-storey building.
“I have to go to my work, please let me go,” Abdur Rauf urged the law enforcers while trying to cross the rail lines near the Atia Mahal, but in vain.
Abdur Rauf works at a shopping complex in the area. He said, “I was absent at my workplace for five consecutive day since I left the place”.
When asked, Jedan Al-Musa, additional deputy commissioner (South) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, told our correspondent that “Police are not allowing the locals to go far due to their safety”.
“We will lift the bar when a bomb disposal unit will arrive here and collect evidences, clues after searching the entire Atia Mahal,” he said.
Our correspondent covering the Operation Twilight saw a man announcing that the gas line will come back this afternoon.
The gas line remained cut off since Saturday following the raid.
The restrictions on the movements of citizens enforced soon after the operation began also remain in effect in the area.
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