Criminals beat up intern

Masked criminals beat up an intern at Comilla Medical College Hospital early yesterday.

The intern, Sajibul Haque, 31, is undergoing treatment at the hospital.

Abdul Awal Sohel, resident surgeon of the hospital, said six to seven masked men entered the hospital around 12:45am after exploding several crude bombs. They were looking for Based Ahmed, president of the college unit of intern doctors' association.

At one stage, the criminals, all aged between 20 and 25, broke open the door of a room for intern doctors on the fourth floor and dragged out Sajibul. They hit him with sticks and iron rods and left the scene, Sohel added.

Protesting the attack, the doctors of the hospital demanded arrest of the attackers by Saturday. Otherwise, they threatened non-stop work abstention from Sunday.

Earlier on January 1, four interns came under attack by a patient and his relatives at the hospital.

ABM Khurshid Alam, director of the hospital, said yesterday's attack might be a sequel to the January 1 attack. 

Following the incident, the hospital authorities wrote to the district police to set up a police outpost in the hospital compound.