At least 30 people, including three journalists, were injured when a group of youths, allegedly activists of the Awami League, attacked and foiled a human chain formed at Sakhipur on Friday demanding immediate repairs of Sakhipur-Taktar Chala road.
Sakhipur police officer-in-charge Mozammel Haque Mamun said that Bangladesh Nationalist Party had formed the human chain at Taltala crossing at Sakhipur, where a police team was deployed to control law and order.
'Suddenly', the police officer said, 'some people attacked the demonstrators and drove them away leaving 30 people injured,' he said.
Witnesses said that a few minutes after the human chain was formed, activists of Awami Juba League and Bangladesh Chhatra League, youth and students wings of the ruling Awami League, had attacked the demonstrators.
District BNP president Ahmed Azam Khan and three journalists, Channel-i district correspondent Muslemuddin, ATN Bangla and ATN News district correspondent Nasiruddin and daily Amar Desh correspondent Anwar Kabir, who were performing their professional duties, were injured in the attack.
The ruling party men also attacked the upazila BNP office, where the protesters had taken shelter, witnesses said.
The youths vandalised the office and injured BNP activists, they said.
District BNP secretary Shamsul Alam Tofa claimed that the AL activists did not allow the injured to go to Sakhipur upazila health complex for treatment.
The injured activists were admitted to different private hospitals in Tangail, he said.
Amar Desh correspondent Anwar Kabir, who was admitted to a clinic at Sakhipur, said the ruling party men had also snatched away the journalists' cameras.
Tangail district press club president Ataur Rahman Ajad and secretary K Shekhor demanded punishment of the attackers
Source : New Age
