At least five people were injured as two groups of traders clashed over a trifle near a shopping complex of the city's Bangabazar yesterday.
The injured were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Of them, the condition of Farhad Khan, a cloth trader of Bangabazar Mahanagar Complex, was stated critical.
The clash erupted between shop employees of the complex and people of some makeshift mobile phone recharge centres in the area over refilling of Tk 20 to a wrong number.
Shah Ali, an injured, said a shop employee, Amir Hossain, went to a nearby recharge centre and gave the trader Tk 20 to refill the amount.
But the trader sent the money to a wrong number. As Amir went to him to ask to refill the money again, an altercation began leading to the clash.
Source : The Daily Star