15 injured in BCL-Shibir clash in Khulna
Some 15 people were injured yesterday after pro-Awami League Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and pro-Jamaat-e-Islami Islami Chhatra Shibir activists of Khulna Alia Madrasa unit clashed on the campus in Khulna city.
Students were asked to vacate the institution's two halls and exams were suspended till further notice while police were deployed on the campus, said the madrasa Principal Mowlana Abul Khaer Md Zakaria.
A BCL activist, Fahaduzzaman, a student of class nine, said the madrasa unit Shibir President Rahmatullah, with his followers, attacked him and his friends while the latter were drinking water from a water dispenser of a hall.
Refuting the allegation, Rahmatullah said BCL activists swooped on Shibir activists following an altercation over drinking water from the dispenser.
Witnesses said the BCL and Shibir activists, armed with iron rods and sticks, attacked each other around 1:00pm.
The BCL men also vandalised some rooms belonging to Shibir activists and broke the window panes and gates of a hall. Some teachers were also injured when they tried to bring the situation under control, they added.
The madrasa teachers and governing body called an emergency meeting and a seven-member probe committee was formed led by Sheikh Md Abdullah to submit a report on the clash in three days.
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