61 hurt in clashes
At least fifty people were injured in a clash between residents of two villages under Pekua upazila of Cox's Bazar around 12:00noon yesterday.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Maniruzzaman of Pekua Police Station said residents of Fansiakhali union and Pekua sadar union locked in a clash during a wrestling match being held at a Baishakhi fair organised by Pekua Upazila Adminstration on Thursday.
After the clashes dissipated, some hundred villagers of Fansiakhali yesterday came to Pekua with sticks and other domestic weapons and attacked the residents, said the OC.
The clash lasted for over two hours before police fired 30 blank shots to bring the situation under control. They did not arrest anybody from the spot, he said.
No case was filed with Pekua Police Station till filling of the report.
BSS from Chapainawabganj adds: At least 11 people, including two women, were injured, six of them seriously, in a clash between two groups of people at Mohipur in Gobratala union of Sadar upazila yesterday morning.
The injured are Nurshed Ali, Sazlu, Khairul Islam, Hazrat Ali, Aliza Begum, Wasim, Golam Rabbani, Liton, Insul, Habibur Rahman, and Latifa Begum, all of Mohipur village.
The first six injured have been admitted to the sadar hospital.
Local sources said Liton had a conflict with his cousin Sazlu over a piece of land for a long time. Following this they locked in the clash around 8:00am
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