3 more held in Rangamati arson attacks
Half-day hartal in Rangamati tomorrow
Police have arrested three more people suspecting their involvement in Friday’s arson attacks by Bangalee settlers at three villages in Longadu upazila of Rangamati.
The arrest was made a day after Sub-Inspector Dulal Hossain of Longadu Police Station filed a case against 15 named and 300/400 unnamed persons over the incident.
Jashim, 26, of Pashchim Baittapara, Abdur Rahim, 27, of Maddhyam Baittapara, and Abdur Rahman, 25, of Tintila area were arrested from different areas of the upazila in an overnight drive, our Rangamati correspondent reports today quoting Mominul Islam, sub-inspector of Longadu Police Station.
The three arrestees were not named in the case, the SI added.
Earlier, police were able to arrest seven people, whose names have been mentioned in the case.
Following the death of a local Jubo League man, several hundred people from different Bangalee-dominated unions brought out a procession carrying the body and attacked indigenous community houses in Tintila, Manikjhor and Baittapara villages on Friday morning.
Police on Thursday recovered the body beside the Khagrachhari-Dighinala road at Charmile in Khagrachhari.
According to indigenous leaders, around 1,500 people of some 250 families left homes and took shelter in the forest after the Bangalee settlers wreaked mayhem.
Tensed Longadu
Life in the area has not returned to normal as a tense situation is still prevailing even though the local administration lifted Section 144 yesterday, according to our correspondent visiting the upazila today.
Most of the shops in the town were seen shut when this report was filed at 1:18pm.
It has been raining ceaselessly in the upazila since the morning.
Half-day hartal tomorrow
United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) will enforce a half-day hartal (shutdown) protesting the arson attacks on indigenous community in Rangamati, the correspondent said.