25 injured in clash

At least 25 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers on Saturday over occupation of khas land at Dobila village in Moheshpur upazila. Police and local people said, there was a longstanding dispute over occupation of a khas land between the people of bordering villages of Moheshpur upazila in Jhenidah and Chougachha upazila in Jessore. When the villagers of Kadbila and Ogoldanga in Chougachha upazila came to occupy the khas land in the morning, villagers of Sayedpur and Narayanpur tried to resist them. At one stage hundreds of villagers equipped with lethal weapons locked in a fierce clash that lasted for one and a half hours.