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| 2 BCL men lose limbs in attack, 15 held |
| 2014-04-30 |
| A group of unidentified miscreants severed limbs of two Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... activists in broad daylight on Rajshahi University campus yesterday morning. The victims, Abdullah Al Masud and Tagar Mohammad Saleh, were on their way to the university on a rickshaw when they were attacked near Ziaur Rahman Hall around 8:15am, said Alamgir Hossain, OC of Motihar cop shoppe. After severely injuring the victims, the attackers set off two crude bombs and promptly left the scene, said witnesses. A few local shop owners and the guards at Ziaur Rahman Hall then rushed Masud and Saleh to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, said the OC. The culprits hacked off Masud's right leg from knee and severed the tendons of Saleh's arms and legs, according to sources at the medical college hospital. Later, they were moved to National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) in the capital's Agargaon area as their conditions worsened, the Chhatra League leaders said. Masud is an activist of Chhatra League's Rajshahi University unit, while Saleh is the student scholarship affair secretary, according to the student party's leaders. Both are second-year students at the university and residents of Madar Bux Hall. Both Chhatra League leaders and police suspect that activists of Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami ... 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... , were involved in the incident. Alamgir said: "Shibir might have been involved in the attack. We have tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 15 Shibir activists on suspicion that they may be involved with the case." The arrested were currently being interrogated at Motihar cop shoppe, he said, adding that police would continue looking for the miscreants responsible for the attack. Mizanur Rahman Rana, president of the Rajshahi University unit of Chhatra League, claimed Shibir activists were involved in the attack and demanded immediate arrest of those responsible for it. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... when contacted, Shoyeb Shahriar, organising secretary of Shibir's unit in the university, denied all allegations and said the attack was the result of Chhatra League's internal feud. Professor Tariqul Hasan, proctor of the university, told the Dhaka Tribune that additional police had been deployed on the campus to deter further untoward situation. Following the incident, Chhatra League activists brought out a procession on the campus in protest and demanding justice. |
| Posted by:Fred |