[Bangla Daily Star] Clashes between Jamaat-Shibir activists and police yesterday killed five people and injured at least 150 others, including 10 coppers, across the country. Besides, two maimed in previous festivities also gave up the ghost yesterday.In the capital BNP activists in collaboration with Jamaat-Shibir men torched four vehicles and vandalised more than 100 vehicles.
Since the International Crimes Tribunal-1 had awarded Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
the capital punishment on Thursday, a total of 47 persons had been killed in the festivities between Islamic fanatics and law enforcers until yesterday.
In Chittagong, three people, including a teenaged boy, were killed and 30 others injured in a shootout between Jamaat-Shibir men and police at Satkania upazila yesterday.
The dear departed have been identified as Abu Taher, 30, son of Abdus Sukkur; Shaidul Islam, 15, son of Abu Taher; and Md Osman, 27, son of Abu Sayed. All of them were from Chhodaha union of the upazila and supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami
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The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
and Islamic Chhatra Shibir, said Satkania upazila chairman Moshad Hossain.
The injured have been admitted to clinics in Satkania and Chittagong city, said police and locals, adding that the four-hour-long clash that took place around 10:00am in Hasmater Dokan area had created widespread panic among people.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Shajahan of Satkania Police Station said Jamat-Shibir men had blocked the Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway from Kerani Haat to Chhodaha areas [approximately 1.5 kilometres] with trees and logs around 7:00am. This triggered a long tailback on the highway.
On information police and members of Rapid Action Battalion
rushed to the spot and charged batons to disperse the activists, who at that time had started to vandalise vehicles.In the face of resistance, the Jamaat-Shibir men at first burled brick chips and then charged homemade bombs at law enforcers. At this the law enforcers retaliated with bullets. The activists also returned bullets, triggering a shootout.