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No.35/2016: Tuesday, April 19, 2016
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GROUP of rowdy settlers carried out an attack today on Masterpara village in
Alikadam in the southern CHT district of Bandarban, setting fire to three
houses and pelting Jummas with stones.
However
no one was injured in the organized settler attack.
According
to sources, the attack took place at 5 p.m, on Tuesday April 19 after janaza, a Muslim religious service, held
for three Bengali cattle traders who are believed to have been killed after
abduction in nearby Thanchi Upazila.
The
law enforcement agencies did little to prevent the settlers who walked about a
kilometer to launch the attack on the Tripura village, the sources added.
One
of the houses belonging to Motirang Tripura, an assistant teacher of Amtoli
Government Primary school, was completely burnt down, while the other two
houses the settlers set fire to could be saved from total destruction.
The
settlers also made attempts to vandalize other houses in the village and pelted
the villagers, who tried to resist the attack, with stones.
Earlier
on Monday, the settlers had beaten up a Tripura couple in Alikadam bus terminal
following the news of the recovery of the lifeless bodies of the three Bengali
cattle traders who had gone missing a few days ago.
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