JL, BCL clash, vandalise 100 shops in Ctg

Awami Juba League and Bangladesh Chhatra League, the ruling Awami League-backed youth and student organisations, clashed, traded gunshots and vandalised business establishments in Chittagong city on Saturday night and Sunday.
At least three people were injured as the ruling party’s youth and student wings clashed in Central Railway Building area under Kotowali police station in the port city on Sunday.
Police opened fire to contain the rioting ruling party men.
The groups — one led by former Juba League central committee member Helal Akbar Chowdhury Babar and the other former central Chhatra League assistant secretary Saiful Alam Limon — traded gunshots during the clash.
Two activists of Babar group were injured in the clash before the police brought the situation under control at about 1:00pm.
Kotowali police station officer-in-charge Jasim Uddin said that police had to open fire to bring the situation under control.
Police also detained Alauddin, 25, of IshakNagar area under Karnaphuli police station in the city and seized a motorcycle from the spot, Jasim added.
Two years ago, two people, including a minor boy, were killed during a gunfight between the same rival groups over a railway tender in the same area, over tender submission at the Central Railway Building. A case was also filed over that incident accusing 87 people including Babar and Limon.
Police had arrested 57 people including the two, but most of them were released after they secured bails within months.
On Saturday night, at least 100 business establishments were vandalised during a clash between two factions of Jaba League and Chhatra League in GEC Circle under Khulshi police station over establishing supremacy and illegal toll collection from the establishments.
Police said that followers of former Omargani MES College unit Chhatra League president Wasim Uddin clashed with followers its former general secretary Arshedul Alam Bachchu at about 7:00pm.

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