UNB, Gaibandha :
At least 20 people, including seven cops, were injured in a triangular clash involving activists of Awami League and BNP-Jamaat and police Gobindaganj upazila on Tuesday.
Police arrested six BNP-Jamaat leaders in connection with the clash.
Officer-in-charge of Gobindaganj Police Station Zahidul Islam said AL men locked in an altercation with BNP-Jamaat activists when recently elected upazila chairman and local BNP leader Faruq Kabir Ahmed along with Jamaat leader Nurunnabi Pradhan
went to the upazila parishad to take charge of office before noon.
At one stage, the both groups engaged in a clash when a chase and counter-chase took place between them and several crude bombs exploded.
Later, the activists of BNP and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam blocked the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway.
As police tried to disperse them, the BNP-Jamaat activists hurled crude bombs at them, said the OC.
Later, police lobbed teargas shells and fired 35 rubber bullets to bring the situation under control.
At least 20 people, including seven cops, were injured in a triangular clash involving activists of Awami League and BNP-Jamaat and police Gobindaganj upazila on Tuesday.
Police arrested six BNP-Jamaat leaders in connection with the clash.
Officer-in-charge of Gobindaganj Police Station Zahidul Islam said AL men locked in an altercation with BNP-Jamaat activists when recently elected upazila chairman and local BNP leader Faruq Kabir Ahmed along with Jamaat leader Nurunnabi Pradhan
went to the upazila parishad to take charge of office before noon.
At one stage, the both groups engaged in a clash when a chase and counter-chase took place between them and several crude bombs exploded.
Later, the activists of BNP and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam blocked the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway.
As police tried to disperse them, the BNP-Jamaat activists hurled crude bombs at them, said the OC.
Later, police lobbed teargas shells and fired 35 rubber bullets to bring the situation under control.
