4 cops hurt in Ctg cocktail blast

Four police constables were injured in a cocktail explosion in the port city of Chittagong on Friday noon.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 1 March 2013, 04:43 AM
Updated : 1 March 2013, 04:44 AM

A clash erupts between Jamaat-e-Islami supporters and police at Kazirdeuri in Chittagong on Thursday during the nationwide strike.

Officer-In-Charge of the Kotwali Police Station AKM Mohiuddin Selim told bdnews24.com that the rowdy activists of the Islami Chhatra Shibir unleashed the attack at Ali Kha Mosque area in Chakbazar after the Jumma prayers.
The injured were identified as constables ‘Nasir’, ‘Solayman’, ‘Rashed’ and ‘Saiful’ of Dampara Police Line.
Eyewitnesses said that the Shibir activists brought out a procession from the Andarkilla Shahi Jame Mosque after the Jumma prayers and marched towards Chakbazar via Sirajuddaula Road. The marauding pickets vandalised roadside establishments.
As the police and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members intercepted the procession, the Shibir activists held a rally in front of Ali Kha Mosque. On the eve of leaving the venue after the short rally, the Shibir men hurled hand bombs at the police, leaving four constables injured.
The injured were admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
At least three people including a police constable were killed and several others injured in separate clashes between Jamaat-Shibir activists and the police in Lohagara, Bashkhali and Satkania upazilas on Thursday during the widespread shutdown violence across the country that took a turn for the worse following the verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 against Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee.
At least 35 people, including four policemen, were killed and scores were injured in a spasm of violence on Thursday in parts of the country after Jamaat-Shibir activists clashed with law enforcers to protest against the death penalty to Sayedee.