Staff Reporter :
At least 100 people including 10 policemen were injured during a clash among the people of three villages over a trifling matter in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Sunday morning.
The injured were admitted into Sarail Upazila Health Complex, Brahmanbaria Sadar Hospital and different other private clinics immediately.
Two houses were also set on fire during the clash that started among the residents of Kalichcho, Surjakandi, and Nayagaon villages around 9:30am, police said.
Quoting the locals, Sarail
Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge (OC) Ali Ashraf said that the villagers swooped on each other with bamboos and sticks that left at least 100 people injured.
On Friday, Mujibar Rahman, a local businessman of Surjakandi village, engaged in an altercation with auto-rickshaw driver Parvez of Nayagaon when they denied giving side to Mujibar’s motorcycle at Kalichcho Bazar, the police official said.
As a sequel to the scuffle, the people of the three villages locked into the clash at different points of the three villages injured at that time. The agitated villagers also torched two houses at Surjakandi village, the OC said.
Police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control, he said.
Additional police forces were deployed to avert any untoward incident in the area, the police official added
At least 100 people including 10 policemen were injured during a clash among the people of three villages over a trifling matter in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Sunday morning.
The injured were admitted into Sarail Upazila Health Complex, Brahmanbaria Sadar Hospital and different other private clinics immediately.
Two houses were also set on fire during the clash that started among the residents of Kalichcho, Surjakandi, and Nayagaon villages around 9:30am, police said.
Quoting the locals, Sarail
Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge (OC) Ali Ashraf said that the villagers swooped on each other with bamboos and sticks that left at least 100 people injured.
On Friday, Mujibar Rahman, a local businessman of Surjakandi village, engaged in an altercation with auto-rickshaw driver Parvez of Nayagaon when they denied giving side to Mujibar’s motorcycle at Kalichcho Bazar, the police official said.
As a sequel to the scuffle, the people of the three villages locked into the clash at different points of the three villages injured at that time. The agitated villagers also torched two houses at Surjakandi village, the OC said.
Police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control, he said.
Additional police forces were deployed to avert any untoward incident in the area, the police official added
