Cops among 50 injured in Habiganj clash

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Habiganj Correspondent :
Over 50 people, including the officer-in-charge of Habiganj Sadar Police Station and four cops, were injured in a clash between two groups of people in the district town on Wednesday over the harassment of a schoolgirl.
 Police and witnesses said an altercation took place between the youths of Shayestanagar and Mohanpur areas of the down on Wednesday morning over the stalking of the schoolgirl of JK & High School allegedly by Nurul Haque, son of Inu Miah of Mohanpur. At one stage, people of both the areas attacked each other with locally made sharp weapons that led to a series of clashes from around 10am to 1:30pm, leaving at least 50 people injured.
Twenty of the injured, including Sadar Police Station’s OC Nazim Uddin and four policemen, were taken to Habiganj Sadar Hospital from where two of them shifted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital in a critical condition.
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