10 arrested over Hathazari clashes
Police arrested 10 people in a nine-hour-long raid in North Fatehabad area under Hathazari upazila in Chittagong last night in connection with the clashes that erupted between locals in the upazila on February 9 and 10.
The arrestees are Emdad Ullah, Md Lokman, Md Farid, Md Osman, Abu Taher, Manjur Alam, Md Shafi, Abdul Karim, Hazi Md Badsha and Md Jasim.
A brawl between two groups broke out February 9 centring a religious event and escalated into a full-fledged clash that continued in phases until Section-144 was imposed the next day.
Afterwards over 700 unidentified people were accused in two separate cases, one over attacks on police and another over vandalism, filed with Hathazari Police Station on February 11.
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