4 cases over Narayanganj violence

Four cases pertaining to clashes and attacks were filed for violence in Narayanganj on Monday.

Fifteen people died in the spate of violence until Tuesday.

Three of the cases were lodged by police at Sonargaon Police Station while a bus owner filed the fourth case.

Sonargaon police Officer-in-Charge Atiqur Rahman said 31 people were named in these cases along with numerous unnamed others. The cases were filed late on Monday night, but no one was arrested yet, he added.

No murder case was, however, filed over the incidents that had left two police officials and two BGB trooper dead so far.

Sonargaon police Sub-Inspector Enamul Haque lodged a case for assaulting police and obstructing government officials from performing duties at Kanchpur area.

Highway police OC Imtiaz Sohel filed another case against several unidentified people for torching Kanchpur highway police station and a police camp.

The third case, filed by Habildar Julhas, accused ‘a huge number of unidentified people’ for setting rickshaws on fire at DMP-dumping ground at Kanchpur.

The fourth case was filed by a bus owner Jakir Hossain against unidentified mob for torching one of his buses at Kanchpur.

Superintendent of Narayanganj Police Syed Nurul Islam said, “A murder case will also be filed for the death of BGB and police personnel with Siddhirganj police. No one involved in this incident has, however, been arrested so far.”

After Hifazat-e Islam supporters were flushed out from Dhaka’s Motijheel on early Monday, they had blocked the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in three areas of Kanchpur and Siddhirganj locality in Narayanganj since morning and started damaging vehicles.

Police and BGB were attacked when they tried to disperse the mob. The clashes left at least 15, including two policemen and two Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) trooper dead and over hundreds injured.

At least 10 vehicles, including that of law enforcers, were damaged and set ablaze during the string of clashes that continued from Monday morning to noon.