Phone shop attacked at Shahbagh

Seriously injured in the head, Mohammad Jahangir, an employee of the market, was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) immediately after the incident.

The other injured are Shamsuzzoha Sumon, JCD Dhaka University (DU) unit assistant general secretary, Ashraf Babu, JCD DU unit international secretary and shop manager Mohammad Solayman.

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Sources in the market said an unknown young man from the shop No. 75 named Wave Business System came to the phone-fax shop Meem International to make a call from the cell phone at about 10:15pm. After making the call, he was leaving without paying.

When Solayman asked him to pay the phone bill, he refused to pay. Later, the young man along with six others ransacked the shop and looted cash and pre-paid mobile phone cards, owner of the shop Kazi Moniruzzaman Monir said.

He said the miscreants also attacked JCD leaders Sumon and Babu when they protested their act and asked them to pay the phone bill.

Later, Monir demanded punishment to the attackers.

Additional police have been deployed at the market, as the situation there is tense. No case was filed.