Thursday, February 28, 2013 At
least 41 people were killed as the activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and
Islami Chhatra Shibir ran riot across the country centring Sayedee's
verdict on Thursday.The victims included the cops, activists of Jamaat, Shibir, Juba League and common people.
Of the deceased, six people, including three cops, were killed in Gaibandha, four in Thakurgaon, three in Satkhira, two each in Rangpur, Noakhali and Sirajganj while one each in Dinajpur, Natore, Cox's Bazar and Chapainawabganj.
GAIBANDHA
Soon after a verdict awarding death sentence to Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer Delawar Hossain Sayedee was declared, several thousand supporters of the Islamic party attacked Bamondanga police outpost in Sundarganj upazila in the afternoon.
They beat three policemen to death and set fire to the outpost, reports our Gaibandha correspondent.
In response, police opened fire, leaving three people killed.
The policemen were named as constable Nadim, Bablu and Hazrat Ali.
THAKURGAON
About 1,500 Jamaat-Shibir men took out a procession from Goreya Bazaar in Sadar upazila after the verdict and attacked 10/15 shops and 10/12 houses of Awami League men and the Hindu community.
Police and BGB teams rushed there and fired blank shots and tear shells to disperse the attackers.
Encircling the law enforcers, the marauding Jamaat-Shibir men started to throw brick-bats and, at one stage, closed in to fight them.
Police opened fire to escape, leaving one Firoz, 24, dead on the spot and about eight to 10 injured.
Rubel, a 13-year-old Shibir supporter, was found lying dead, bullet-hit, inside a shop later.
When locals rushed one Munir Uddin, 20, and Nironjon, 25, of Goreya village to Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital, doctors declared them dead, said Rezaul Karim, officer-in-charge of Thakrugaon Police Station.
RANGPUR
At least two people were killed and 57 including a cop injured during clashes between the activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir and police in Mithapukur and Peergachha upazilas of the northwestern district of Rangpur on Thursday.
The deceased are Shibir activists -- Nurul Huda and Sadek Ali, 35, claimed Mostaque Ahmed, Rangpur city president of the student wing of Jamaat.
The clash took place near Mithapukur Upazila Parishad around 2:45pm soon after Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, our Rangpur correspondent reports quoting Abu Hena Mostofa Kamal, officer-in-charge (OC) of Mithapukur Police Station.
The activists of Jamaat-Shibir were staging demonstrations at Mithapukur Bazaar since morning putting barricade on road.
They hurled brick chips at police as the law enforcers asked them to free the road, Kamal said.
Police charged baton and also opened fire to disperse the agitators that left two people killed and 50 injured.
In Peergachha upazila, a sub-inspector of police and five Jamaat-Shibir men were injured by bullets during a clash at Kadamtali.
The injured cop is Mizan, a sub-inspector of Peergachha Police Station, said Bazlur Rashid, OC of the police station.
Another police official was also injured during the clash.
Similar to Mithapukur incident, the Jamaat activists got into a clash with police after Sayedee's verdict.
As police opened fire to disperse them, five Shibir men were wounded, Rashid said.
NOAKHALI
Hours after Jamaat top leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee was sentenced to death, Jamaat and Shibir activists set fire to a temple and houses of Hindu community at different parts of Noakhali on Thursday.
Two people were killed as the activists clashed with law enforcers at different points of the district town, reports our Noakhali correspondent.
Md Khokon, 17, a tempo helper, received a bullet wound in the clash around 3:45pm, locals said.
Doctors pronounced Khokon dead after he was rushed to Noakhali Medical College Hospital at 4:00pm, said medical sources.
DINAJPUR
A Shibir man was killed and two sustained bullet wounds when the BGB men opened fire on activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur nearly one hour after the delivery of Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee's verdict on Thursday.
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