News No.
55/2018 : Monday, April 30, 2018
A GROUP
of Bengali settlers attacked a Jumma village in Ramgarh in Khagrachari district
on Sunday night, according to local sources.
About
sixty to seventy settlers from Khagrabil led by Doctor Mannan carried out the
attack in the village of Lalchari Sadhu Para under Ramgarh Sadar Union at 11
p.m.
They
searched 14 houses for what they termed as ‘terrorists’ and destroyed one
belonging to Borendra Tripura, 32, son of Bishu Kumar Tripura.
All the
villagers except for one had fled their homes before the attacker reached their
village.
Bojro
Kumar Tripura, 45, son of Purno Kumar Tripura had failed to run away, and he
was taken away by the attackers. He has remained missing since then.
There was
no attempt on the part of the local administration to prevent the attack.
Tension
still remains high in the area.
The
sources named two other settlers who led the attack as Md. Kamal, 43, son of
Ali Ashraf and Md. Hanif Bachchu, 65, son of late Abdur Rouf.
UPDF has
condemned the attack as ‘barbarous and a heinous crime committed in flagrant
violation of the law of the country’.
UPDF
leader Sachib Chakma urged the government to bring the perpetrators to justice.
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