Sec 144 imposed at Phulbaria in Mymensingh

The local administration today imposed section 144 in the municipality area of Mymensingh's Phulbaria upazila where two people including a college teacher were killed during a police action yesterday.

The authorities imposed the restriction for 24 hours from 12midnight today to avoid further violence, Nur-e-Alam, additional superintendent of Mymensingh police, told our Mymensingh correspondent.

Police barred the family members when they tried to bring the body of Abul Kalam Azad, assistant professor of botany department of Fulbaria Degree College, to the college premises for his namaz-e-janaza in the morning, the victim's father SM Abul Hashem claimed.

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Later, Azad was buried at his home village Nandail at Kadirpur in the upazila around 11:30am, locals said.

A passerby, Safor Ali, was also killed during the incident that took place when the teachers and students were demonstrating, demanding nationalisation of the college.

Over 100 others were also injured, 10 of them seriously, as police swooped on an agitation programme of teachers, students and locals in Phulbaria upazila yesterday.

CASES

Two cases -- one for the deaths and another for assaulting police -- were filed with the local police station in connection with the incident last night.

Hazrat Ali, brother of deceased Safor Ali, filed a case over death of two people while police filed another case over assaulting law enforcers accusing 400 to 500 unidentified people following the yesterday's incident.