Khagrachhari clash: Bodies handed over to families

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UNB, Khagrachhari :
The bodies of four people, including three of a family killed in a clash with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members, were handed over to their families on Wednesday morning.
Md Shamsuddin, officer-in-charge of Matiranga Police Station, said the bodies of Sahab Mia, 58, and his two sons Ali Akbar, 28, and Ahmed Ali, 22, were handed over to the family after autopsy.
Matiranga Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Bivishan Kanti Das, Matiranga Circle Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Md Khorshed Alam, Upazila Awami League President M Humayun Morshed Khan,
 General Secretary Subas Chakma, Matiranga Sadar Union Parishad Chair Hiron Joy Tripura, among others, were present.
Four people, including a BGB soldier, were killed and two others sustained gunshot wounds in a clash between BGB members and villagers at Gazinagar Bazar in Matiranga upazila on Tuesday. Hearing the news of death of her husband and two sons, Shahab’s wife Rawshan Akhter Ronju Bibi died of a heart attack. The clash took place when labourers were loading tree trunks on a truck when a BGB team from Khagrachhari appeared there and asked them to refrain from doing that, police said.
Witnesses said the labourers told the BGB team that they had legal documents but the BGB men kept insisting them to stop.
At one stage, both parties got involved in an altercation and engaged in a fight, leaving four people dead and two others injured.
Injured Mofiz Miah, 50 and Md Hanif, 28, were sent to Chattogram Medical College Hospital.
Later at a briefing at the health complex, Md Khorshed Alam, assistant superintendent of police’s Matiranga circle, confirmed the deaths.
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