3 Jubo League men held for assaulting doctor, nurse

Police yesterday arrested three Jubo League activists in Nagarkanda upazila for assaulting a doctor, nurse and an office assistant during the ongoing measles-rubella vaccination programme.

Arrestees Alamin Mia, 45, Anwar Hossain, 47, and Rubel Mia, 38, are activists of the upazila unit Jubo League.

Sources said when a woman took her daughter for vaccination to the Nagarkanda Upazila Health Complex around noon yesterday, the on-duty nurse asked her to stand in the queue as many were waiting.

The woman became angry and called in her brother Alamin over the phone, who went there with Anwar and Rubel and 10-12 others and assaulted nurse Rekha Khanam.

Jyotirmoy Chowdhury, medical officer of the health complex, tried to stop the attackers but he too was beaten up.

Ekhlas Hossain, office assistant of the complex, was also assaulted as he was trying to record footage of the incident on his mobile phone, the medical officer told The Daily Star.

On information, police went to the spot and arrested the trio but others managed to flee, he added.

Sheikh Md Sohel Rana, officer-in-charge of Nagarkanda Police Station, said a case was filed against them.