This Monday photo shows activists of Hefajat-e Islam, joined by the locals, beating law enforcers on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway near Signboard area in Narayanganj.
A soldier of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), who was beaten up mercilessly by activists of Islamist group Hefajat-e Islam at Kanchpur in Narayanganj Sunday, died this morning.
Lavlu Miah, 38, succumbed to his injuries at the Intensive Care Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 8:30am, DMCH sources said.
His death sent the casualty toll from the Monday’s Narayanganj clash to 21.
Twenty people including two cops and a BGB soldier died in clashes between law enforcers and Hefajat activists who struck terror in Kanchpur and Signboard areas of Narayanganj on Monday.
Police fired several hundred gunshots, rubber bullets and teargas shells to disperse the Hefajat men who threw brickbats and stones at police, Rab and BGB men and attacked them with bamboo sticks.
Police said the Hefajat men also hurled over 100 cocktails on them.
They also vandalised and torched about 10 vehicles, including a car of Rapid Action Battalion, and set fire to a police outpost on Dhaka-Chittagong highway.
Source: The Daily Star
