Two shot in Chittagong

Two people, including a former union parishad chairman, were shot early yesterday during an altercation between two rival groups at Boalkhali upazila in Chittagong.
The bullet-hit are former Kharandwip union chairman Azizul Haq, 52, and Md Aziz, 18, of the same union.
Md Jahirul Haque Sabuj, officer-in-charge of Boalkhali Police Station, told The Daily Star that the two rival groups locked into an altercation as one group tried to break one Abu Taher's house over a previous enmity around 1:00am.
The two were rushed to a private hospital in the port city with bullet injuries, OC said quoting the locals.