14 hurt in clash in Khagrachhari

Courtesy: The Daily Star, Wednesday, June 11, 2014

 

At least 14 people, including several women, were injured yesterday in a clash between indigenous people and members of police and the BGB over setting up of a helipad in Dighinala upazila of Khagrachhari.

When Border Guard Bangladesh personnel tried to plant a flag at the proposed site of a helipad at Babuchhara around 4:30pm, about a dozen indigenous women protested it, and got into an altercation with the BGB men saying the land belonged to them.

The women first tried to resist the BGB men from planting the flag, and some indigenous men joined them, said Shahadat Hossain Tito, officer-in-charge of Dighinala Police Station.

The argument led to clashes that left several BGB members and indigenous people wounded, he said.

Police personnel later went to the spot, and fired rubber bullets and tear gas shells to bring the situation under control.

The government acquired the land for the BGB at Babuchhara in 1991. Fearing eviction, local indigenous people filed a writ petition with higher court against the move.

Source: http://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/14-hurt-in-clash-in-khagrachhari-28060

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