Fourteen police including, 13 at Enayetpur police station in Sirajganj, were killed on Sunday amid clashes flaring up across the country on the first day of non-cooperation programme announced by the Student Movement Against Discrimination pressing for its one-point demand for the resignation of the government led by prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
The police headquarters confirmed the news through a text message.
However, names of the killed police personnel at Enayetpur police station located adjacent to the Bangabandhu Bridge over the Jamuna River were not given by the police headquarters.聽聽
The other police member was killed at the Eliotganj police station in Cumilla.
抖阴精品 correspondent from Sirajganj reported that the deadly incident at the Enayetpur police station occurred when around 4,000 people laid siege to the聽聽 establishment at 11:00am and vandalised the area, leading the police to retaliate with tear shells and rubber bullets wounding around 50 of them.
At one moment miscreants stormed into the police station and attacked the police members with locally-made sharp weapons and sticks, fatally injuring them. Most of the injured policemen succumbed to injuries inside the police station鈥檚 compound.
Sirajganj superintendent of police Arifur Rahman Mondol said that they were trying to recover bodies which were lying scattered at the spot till filing the report at 6:30pm.
A former union level chairman, Rashedul Hasan Siraj, said that around 36 police members were stationed in the station. Other members might flee from there, he said.
Purbachal Highway police deputy inspector general Khayrul Alam said that they identified the killed police member as constable Md Ershad who was beaten to death at about 2:00pm by 鈥榩rotesters鈥�.
The police headquarters in another message said that at least 25 other police stations, including Jatrabari and Khilgaon in the capital, came under attack from throughout the country amid clashes.
