10 hurt in city’s Geneva Camp rival clash

As two rival drug dealer groups of Bihari community locked in clashes equipped with local made arms over establishing supremacy at Geneva Camp in city's Mohammadpur area on Thursday. Police trying to quell the clashes though the situation still tense.
As two rival drug dealer groups of Bihari community locked in clashes equipped with local made arms over establishing supremacy at Geneva Camp in city's Mohammadpur area on Thursday. Police trying to quell the clashes though the situation still tense.
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Staff Reporter :
At least 10 persons were injured in a clash between two groups of people at Geneva Camp over establishing supremacy in the capital’s Mohammadpur on Thursday.
The clash took place following an altercation between supporters of the two groups of people at the camp on Wednesday midnight.
The injured persons were sent to different hospitals of the capital.
Eyewitnesses said both groups equipped with home made arms attacked
each other around 12:30pm, leaving 10 people injured.
A policeman was also injured as the warring people threw brick chips at the policemen when they reached there to bring the situation under control.
The law enforcers raided the camp around 1:00pm and recovered knives and brick chunks from different places of the camp, Wahiduzzaman, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Tejgaon Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told the reporters at 2:15pm.
None was arrested in connection with the incident, said the ADC. Additional police were deployed in the area to avert further clash. ADC Wahiduzzaman added that police would file a case in this connection.
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