An injured attacker dies

A tea worker who was injured during a clash with Khasis in Moulvibazar's Srimangal upazila on Friday died yesterday morning.
The victim, Nitay Tanti, 40, was one of the two hundred people the Nahar Tea Estate authorities collected to attack the neighbouring Nahar Punjee-1, a Khasi village, in an attempt to evict the indigenous people and grab the land.
He was hit in the back of head by a marble-shaped earthen ball, which a Khasi man fired from a slingshot to resist the attackers. Nitay breathed his last at 5:30am in Osmani Medical College Hospital, Sylhet, said police.
A duty-doctor told The Daily Star that they could not primarily determine the cause of his death but said the wound bled profusely. The body was sent for autopsy.