BANGLADESH NEWS
At least 50 people were injured when locals attacked the motorcade of Jatiya Sangsad Whip Shaikh Abdul Wohab in Monirampur Upazila of Jessore on Saturday.
The whip, however, escaped unhurt, report our Benapole and Narail correspondents.
Nearly 100 people opposing the Tidal River Management (TRM) project, related to river management, also vandalised three vehicles and torched three human haulers and three motorcycles during the attack.
The injured include Abhaynagar Upazila Chairman Abul Malik; Moshiur Rahman, executive engineer of Water Development Board; whip's body guard Monir Hossain and his Assistant Personal Secretary Dilip Kumar Goshwami, Noapara pouro BNP president Haji Rafiqul Islam; Former Paira Union Parishad chairman Bisnu Podo Dutta, Chhatra League leaders Nasir Hossain and Sharif Hossain.
The injured were admitted to different Khulna Medical College Hospital and other local clinics and hospitals.
In protest, the people who want the project to be implemented brought out a procession on Noapara link road leading to the Jessore-Khulna highway and ransacked three buses there.
Meanwhile, Abul Malik was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital as his condition was stated critical.
The motorcade of the whip, also the MP of Jessore-6 constituency, came under attack around 10:00am at Bilkapalia in Bhabadaha area of the upazila near the TRM project while he was going there to inaugurate it.
Ahsan Habib, the officer-in-charge of Abhaynagar Police Station, said locals attacked the motorcade to prevent them from inaugurating the TRM project.
The whip alleged that a section of owners of fish enclosures along with some land grabbers and NGO owners conducted the attack as their businesses will be hampered if the project is implemented.
Additional police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel have been deployed in the area to avert further untoward incident.
At least 35 houses of minority community people were vandalised, 10 vehicles and seven shops torched while three jewelry shops looted after the news of attack on whip spread.
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