4 cases filed over Narsingdi clash

Four separate cases were filed in connection with a deadly clash between the supporters of current and former union parishad chairmen in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi that left four people dead and 150 injured including four law enforcers.

Police filed the cases with Raipura Police Station against over 150 unknown persons, reports our Narsingdi correspondent. 

Armed with crude bombs, spears and other lethal weapons, the feuding groups clashed several times since yesterday morning at Amirabad and Sonakandi villages in Nilokkha Union of the upazila.

At least 10 houses were vandalised and six more torched in both villages.

The deceased are Manik Mia, 40, and Shahjahan, 40 of Amirabad village, and Khokon, 35, and Rakib, 16, of Sonakandi village.

Police and locals said that there had been a longstanding rivalry between Awami League-backed Nilokkha UP Chairman Tajul Islam and former chairman Abdul Haque, also a ruling party leader, over establishing supremacy in the union. Tension between the two rivals grew after the Union Parishad polls on April 19.

Since then, their supporters have clashed at least 10 times.