UNB, Faridpur :
At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over cutting a an old tree at Ghopghat in Madhukhali upazila on Saturday afternoon.
Quoting locals, Nur-e-Alam Siddique, officer-in-charge of Madhukhali police station, said when Murad Hossain, president of Eidgah Committee, decided to cut down an old banyan tree for the renovation work of the Eidgah one Akram Hossain of the village protested it and sent letters to the deputy commissioner and the forest department for saving the old tree.
On Saturday noon, when Murad Hossain along with his men went the area to cut down the tree Akram along with some local people obstructed them.
At one stage, Murad group, equipped with lethal weapons, attacked them, leaving 10 people injured.
Being informed, police rushed in and brought the situation under control.
Two injured of them, were admitted to a local hospital.
