30 injured as students, police clash in Noakhali
At least 30 people including five policemen were injured as police and students locked in a clash in Begumganj upazila yesterday.
Police fired 35 rounds of blank shots to disperse the students.
The injured policemen sub-inspectors Kamal Krishna Dhar and Anwar Hossain, assistant sub-inspector Feroz Ahmad and constables Gias Uddin and Md. Halim were being treated at Begumganj 10-Bed Hospital.
Agitated students alleged that principal of Begumganj Technical School and College Kafil Uddin is ill-tempered and a man of bad taste.
Protesting his behaviour and demanding his removal the students of the college stood in a queue beside the roadside. But without any provocation, police attacked the students, they said.
Amirul Alam, officer in-charge of Begumganj police station said that the students began to throw brickbats at the law enforcers when they tried remove a road barricade.
The principal of the college, however, denied the allegations made by the students.
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