News No.46/2016:
Saturday, June 04, 2016
AT least three Jumma
people were injured and several shops belonging to them were damaged when
members of the Jubo League and Chattra League, two front organizations of the
ruling Awami League party, attacked a Jumma neighbourhood in Kaokhali Upazila
headquarters today.
Fifteen to twenty men
led by Nazim Uddin, general secretary of the Kaokhali Jubo (youth) League,
carried out the attack at 7:40 pm after the close of voting in the sixth phase
UP elections.
The attack left two
shopkeepers and another Jumma villager injured. They have been identified as
Mong Sanu Marma, 25, Aung Hla Ching Marma, 23, and Memong Marma, 19.
The attackers also
vandalized several shops including Aung Sainu Store, Biplob Chakma Store,
Ruithui Marma Store, Ushaton Chakma Cooling Corner, Bimal Chakma Store and
Paching Marma Store and an election office of Jagadish Chakma and Ushaina
Marma.
When the Jummas tried to
resist, a group of army personnel rushed there and charged baton on them,
instead of taking actions against the attackers.
The Jubo League and
Chattra League goons attempted another attack at 8:45 pm, but the Jumma
residents resisted them successfully.
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