AL, BNP trade blame over attack

The Awami League and the BNP last night traded blame over the attack on Khaleda Zia's motorcade in the capital's Karwan Bazar in the afternoon.
Local AL leaders claimed six of their party men were injured when some “BNP activists and Khaleda's security staff” attacked them. 
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the AL parliamentary board meeting last night alleged that Khaleda's 

security staff opened fire on AL men without any provocation and created a dreadful situation, reports UNB.
“This is how she has been destroying the electoral atmosphere,” said the PM. 
The BNP, however, complained that AL men fired shots at Khaleda's SUV. 
Maj Gen (retd) Fazle Elahi Akbar, the former PM's security and defence affairs adviser, claimed that a bullet hit the window of the vehicle. 
“The BNP chairperson escaped the attack as the vehicle was bullet proof,” he told reporters at Khaleda's Gulshan residence around 9:30pm.
He also showed the newsmen “a bullet mark” on the right-hand window of the vehicle. 
Many journalists including this correspondent who witnessed the incident doubted the claims of both the parties as no shots were heard during the incident and there was no attack on the AL men. 
AT HOSPITAL
Visiting the AL-Raji Hospital around 9:30pm, this correspondent found some injured lying in beds, with their hands and legs bandaged. AL leaders claimed the injured to be their party men.
“The incident took place around 5:40pm, but the injured came here around 7:30pm. Where had they been in the meantime?” questioned a hospital staff. 
The hospital is just 10 minute's walk from the spot of the incident.
None of the injuries was serious. People injured in such clashes usually go to public hospitals for treatment, sensing police case, said another staff wishing not to be named. 
“But we had to admit the injured to the hospital as they wished to receive treatment here,” he added. 
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan visited the injured at the hospital. He told reporters that “Khaleda's security staff” beat up AL men during the incident.