Unidentified assailants attacked a gathering of the National Citizen’s Committee in Barishal this day (16 December), leaving 5 injured, including a joint member secretary of the organisation.
The assault took build apart of abode in front of the build apart of abode of job of Awami League’s Barishal city unit at Dakkhin Para on Sadar Avenue spherical 11am, said committee contributors.
For the length of the assault, chairs were vandalised while some leaders and activists of the organisation were allegedly overwhelmed up.
Jubo Dal and Krishak Dal males performed the assault, contributors of the organisation claimed.
Constant and not utilizing a now not up to three eyewitnesses, a neighborhood of americans began a commotion factual after the committee began their assembly.
For the length of this time, these americans vandalised chairs and tore up banners.
In addition to they beat up some organisers of the assembly while calling them allies of AL, committee contributors claimed.
Organiser of the committee’s Barishal city unit Md Sajjadur Rahman Shakil Mridha said, “Some americans barged into our pre-scheduled assembly. They called us Awami League allies, broke the chairs and tore banners.
“They even beat up a joint member secretary of ours and tried to throw him into the conclude by pond. A minimal of 5 of us were injured within the incident. Amongst them, injured student Hamjalal, his mother Rumana Begum, Committee Member GM Mehedi Hasan and Md Asif luxuriate in bought major remedy and long past to police to raise lawful steps,” Mridha added.
Echoing Mridha, some leaders of the organisation said the attackers assaulted Dr Mahmuda Mitu, the committee’s joint member secretary, and tried to throw her into the pond.
They could now not invent it on account of resistance from the americans point to there, the leaders said.
Requested about the criticism, member secretary of Krishak Dal’s Barishal city unit Saeed Talukder said, “These who were point to on the assembly were chanting ‘We want Awami League authorities time and over again’ when we were passing the space. Our males dedicated some untoward incidents after changing into provoked hearing this. We luxuriate in pacified them; nothing enormous has came about.”
Officer In-Payment of Barishal’s Kotwali police build apart of abode Mizanur Rahman said, “A written criticism has been lodged on behalf of National Citizen’s Committee. Acceptable steps are on the 2d underway.”
