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DHAKA
Hundreds of members of Islamic organizations torched homes and vandalized retailers in protest in opposition to an occasion introduced by the Ahmadiyya neighborhood within the Panchagarh district of northern Bangladesh.
The agitators blocked the Dhaka-Panchgarh freeway and attacked Ahmadiyya folks in addition to the police.
Police had beefed up safety within the space within the wake of agitators calling for a protest after the Ahmadiyya neighborhood introduced a three-day ‘Jalsa Salana’ of the minority Muslim neighborhood. Militant leaders and members of varied Islamic organizations led the protest however had been stopped by the police in entrance of the Jama Masjid alongside the freeway at Chowringhee Junction within the district.
The militants set ablaze a visitors police van at Dhakkamara in Panchagarh. Police and border guard Bangladesh autos had been additionally broken within the assaults by the Islamists. Over 100 houses and retailers belonging to members of the Ahmadiyya neighborhood had been torched and vandalized throughout the assault. Panchgarh Sadar police station chief Abdul Latif Miya advised IANS that the assault started when the Islamists began throwing bricks and stones on the regulation enforcers.
Shopkeepers throughout town downed their shutters as pressure escalated. The militants additionally burnt tires on some roads. North District Superintendent of Police SM Sirajul Hooda stated that every one efforts had been being made to carry the state of affairs beneath management.
