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Sunamganj AL men clash

4 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet

Twenty people were injured in a clash Wednesday night in Biswambharpur upazila of Sunamganj district between the rival factions of Awami League during a procession arranged in favour of the grand alliance candidate for Sunamganj-4 by-election. The by-election is schedueld for June 15. The seat went vacant after the death of Jatiya Party's Begum Momtaj Iqbal on April 17. Police and locals said, the clash ensued after AL's Biswambharpur upazila publicity secretary Abdur Rafique and upazila AL vice-president Ahmed Ali locked in an altercation over leading a procession at Chinakandi Bazar.