Police lodge case against 400, meeting banned

Phulbaria police Sunday night lodged a case accusing 300 to 400 people on charge of clashing with the law enforcers during an agitation when the teachers and the students of Phulbaria Degree College were demanding that their institution be nationalised.
The clashes between police and the agitators at the upazila headquarters in Mymensingh left a teacher and a villager dead. Some 25 people were also injured. 
Sub-inspector Rafiqul Islam of Phulbaria police station instituted the case Sunday night but none was arrested until 8:45pm on Monday, said Rifat Khan Rajib, officer-in-charge of the police station. 
Abul Kalam Azad, a teacher of the Botany Department of Phulbaria Degree College and Safar Ali, 70, a passerby, succumbed to their injuries following police clubbing. 
Meanwhile, Phulbaria upazila administration imposed a ban on any public gathering across Phulbaria municipality following the clashes.
The officer-in-charge of Phulbaria said that the upazila administration imposed a restriction on any public gathering from Monday 6:00am and it would continue, until further notice.
Locals said an eerily calm situation was prevailing in the area.
Meanwhile, the ministry of education on Monday formed a committee to investigate into the deadly event.
The probe committee led by the directorate of secondary and higher education director (administration), Shamsul Huda, has started their investigation, education minister Nurul Islam Nahid told reporters at the secretariat, Monday afternoon. 
‘Attack on any teacher is very unfortunate’, he said.

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