Jamaat men clash with police in Dhaka

Police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse rampaging activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area on Tuesday morning, police said.

The police action came after the activists of the fundamentalist party vandalised vehicles and threw brickbats at the police who tried to stop a procession.
No injuries were immediately reported in the chaos that broke out after the party activists brought out a procession at around 8am at Moghbazar intersection.

 Police detained eight Jamaat activists at the scene of chaos, Ramna Police Station Officer-in-Charge Shah Alam told bdnews24.com.
He said the activists of the party, which seeks a halt to the ongoing war crimes trial involving its top leaders, carried a ‘read-and-green flag with stars on it’ during the procession on Tuesday.
The violence took place a day before the BNP-led opposition alliance’s 36 hours of shutdown starting on Wednesday.