Plainclothes cop savaged
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Jamaat-Shibir men, in a manifestation of continued brutality, again pounced on a policeman and thrashed his head with bricks in Chirirbandar of Dinajpur during the hartal hours yesterday.
A severely injured Abdus Sabur, a district intelligence officer of the special branch of police, was first taken to Dinajpur Medical College Hospital and then transferred to Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) as his condition deteriorated.
A brain scan showed that Sabur had suffered a small haemorrhage and multiple fractures in the head, Asif Ferdous, indoor medical officer of RMCH, told The Daily Star.
"We will keep him under observation."
Around1500 to 2,000 youths of the Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir blocked the Dinajpur-Parbatipur road at Hajirmor in Chirirbandar around 11:00am, witnesses said. The Jamaat-Shibir men were armed with sticks and brick chips.
Some of them attacked two motorcyclists and damaged their vehicles.
Hearing about the gathering, constable Shahadat Hossain took Sub-inspector Abdus Sabur on his motorcycle and drove to the spot around 11:20pm, said Debdas Bhattacharya, superintendent of police (SP) in Dinajpur, adding the two were in plainclothes.
Identifying them as policemen, the marauding youths attacked the motorcycle and swooped on the two, said a police source. Shahadat abandoned his vehicle and ran away. Sabur was left there in a helpless state.
The mob beat him up until he collapsed on the ground. It went on hitting him on the head with broken pieces of bricks, witnesses said.
The assailants then set fire to the motorcycle.
Even when the SI passed out, profusely bleeding from the head, six to seven Shibir men continued striking him on the head with bricks, local people said.
Everything happened in five to seven minutes before 25 armed policemen, who were on patrol about two kilometres from the scene, hurried to the scene and dispersed the attackers, firing rubber bullets. Constable Shahadat had informed the police team about the attack on Sabur.
The 25-minute-long clash between the police and Jamaat-Shibir men, which followed the attack on Sabur, left at least 14 policemen injured. Three Jamaat-Shibir men received rubber bullets.
Sabur underwent surgery conducted by ATM Zillur Rahman for one and a half hours at Dinajpur Medical College Hospital before he was shifted to RMCH at around 2:33pm.
Meanwhile, police recovered a body from a paddy field at Hajimor village around 3:00pm. The dead was identified as Azimuddin, 56, a bicycle repairer of the area.
Police suspected that he might have died due to a cardiac arrest during the melee.
No marks of injury were found on the body, said Tariqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Chirirbandar Police Station.
Tension was still prevailing in the area, the OC said.
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