Newsman injured in attack

A journalist was injured in an attack allegedly by a local Awami League leader in Kalkini upazila yesterday morning. Khairul Alam, Kalkini correspondent of Bangla daily Prothom Alo, is now undergoing treatment at the upazila health complex. Kalkini press club secretary Shahidul Islam said, recently a number of reports were published in newspapers on test relief (TR) corruption, land grabbing allegedly involving the municipality AL president Delware Hossain Dulal. Angered, Dulal along with his supporters obstructed the agents at Bhua Ghata from selling papers at around 8:00am. When local newsmen went to the paper stand they came under the attack, said Shahidul, adding that Khairul sustained injuries in his head.