personnel opened fire during their clash with opposition men in Laxmipur town yesterday morning.Jamaat activist Anwar Hossain was killed and 38 people, including three coppers, were maimed in Comilla after police clashed with Jamaat men in Monoharganj upazila, on the last day of the opposition alliance's blockade.
In Laxmipur, the clash erupted after a Rab team raided the house of district BNP General Secretary Sahabuddin Sabu around 6:00am to arrest him, reports a correspondent from Laxmipur.
Sabu and his family tried to resist and the law enforcers shot Sabu in the leg before arresting him and his brother Azizul Karim, witnesses claimed.
As the news spread, activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal
...student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)...
, a pro-BNP student body, brought out a procession and engaged in a clash with the Rab team in Chawkbazar area of the town.
Rab personnel opened fire to bring the situation under control and three people were killed and at least 28 opposition men were maimed.
The dear departed were: Shihab Hossain, a Shibir activist; Sumon, BNP's youth wing Juba Dal activist; and Mahbubur Rahman, a trader.
The mob also beat a man, aged around 30, dead, suspecting him to be a Rab member.
Protesting the deaths, the activists of the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance along with locals cut off the Rab team, leaving them surrounded inside the Laxmipur police lines around noon. They blocked the roads from the police lines with logs.