The federal government has taken fleshy alter of Tongi’s Biswa Ijtema floor in Gazipur following deadly clashes between two factions of Tabligh Jamaat that left four folks ineffective and over 50 injured.
Contributors of the military, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), police, and other legislation enforcement agencies were deployed throughout the save to be inch security and prevent extra violence.
Further forces were deployed on the Dhaka-Mymensingh motorway and Kamarpara road where suspicious folks are being searched and interrogated.
Despite the unrest, a pair of devotees, followers of Maulana Saad Kandhalvi stayed overnight in a tin-shed mosque on the western financial institution of the Turag River.
They started leaving the save this morning (19 December).
Deputy Commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) NM Nasir Uddin acknowledged a public check out modified into as soon as issued the day earlier than this day (18 December) prohibiting gatherings within a three-kilometer radius of the Ijtema floor.
Devotees had been suggested to vacate the save by the evening and the floor modified into as soon as cleared accordingly.
The Ijtema floor will remain below government alter until extra check out.
Four folks had been killed and 40 others injured in a conflict between two factions of Tabligh Jamaat on the Biswa Ijtema floor in Tongi over the alter of the venue early Wednesday.
In accordance with Commissioner Nazmul Karim Khan of Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP), the violence erupted when followers of Maulana Saad tried to enter the venue, prompting a counter-attack by supporters of Maulana Zubair spherical 3am.
Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury warned that those in price for the violence might maybe presumably well perhaps be held in price.
