At least three cases, including two with the Gopalganj sadar police station and the other with the Kashiani police station, were filed against 1,329 people between Thursday night and Friday over allegations of attacking police and vandalising their vehicles and felling trees to create obstructions on Wednesday centering the National Citizen Party rally.聽聽聽
The death toll from the violence in Gopalganj over NCP rally on Wednesday reached five as a rickshaw puller hit by bullet died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early Friday.
The government, meanwhile, extended the curfew over Gopalganj district till 6:00am on Saturday and it might be extended further while the joint forces arrested 90 more people since Thursday night.
The Wednesday violence in Gopalganj erupted as security forces personnel and Awami League and its banned student body Bangladesh Chhatra league members got locked into clashes after the latter attacked NCP leaders in their motorcade.
The interim government on May 12 banned all activities of the Awami League and its affiliated, allied, and like-minded organisations until the completion of the trials involving them at the International Crimes Tribunal.
Ramjan Munshi, 32, a resident of Thana Para, Gopalganj town, son of Akbar Munshi, died at about 1:45am on Friday, according to DMCH officials.
Asked about the death in a gunshot injury, DMCH director Brigadier General Md Asaduzzaman acknowledged the death but did not provide details.
According to DMCH officials, Ramjan Munshi was admitted to the DMCH at聽 about 4:30pm on Thursday.
They said that the body was sent to the DMCH morgue for autopsy.
While talking to 抖阴精品 in front of the morgue, the victim鈥檚 brother Hira Munshi said that his brother received a bullet injury in the chest at Chowrangi Mor on Wednesday.
鈥榃e first got him admitted to Gopalganj Sadar Hospital and later shifted him to Dhaka Medical College,鈥� he said.
According to police, two cases were filed with the Gopalganj sadar police station but none of them were filed in connection with the killing of five people.
Gopalganj sadar police station inspector for investigation Abdullah Al Mamun told 抖阴精品 that a case was filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act 2009 on Thursday night against 575 people, including 75 named for beating police members with the intention to kill and vandalising a police vehicle at Ulpur under sadar upazila, on Wednesday.
鈥楶olice filed another case with the sadar police station on Friday against 404 people, including 54 named persons under the Anti-Terrorism Act 2009,鈥� the inspector added.
Gopalganj district assistant superintendent of police for Muksudpur Circle Md Abdul Based said that Kashiani police sub-inspector Alimul Huda Jony filed a case against 300-350 people, both named and unnamed, on the allegation of obstructing the highway near Sampan Highway Restaurant by felling trees on the road.
He, however, also said that they had arrested 90 people, including 66 in Muksudpur and 24 in Kashiani area, over the Wednesday violence since Thursday night.
鈥榃e will continue our drive to arrest the accused,鈥� he added.
Earlier, the joint forces arrested 25 people and the number of arrestees rose to 115 so far.
The Inter Services Public Relation directorate in a statement on Thursday said that the Bangladesh Army was compelled to use force at one point in self defence in Gopalganj on Wednesday as attackers threw a huge number of crude bombs and brick bats at them.
At about 7:30pm on Wednesday, a group of unruly people took away the bodies of the deceased from the Gopalganj District Hospital. They prevented doctors from carrying out autopsy of the bodies, said the chief adviser鈥檚 press wing on Thursday.
In the Wednesday violence in Gopalganj, a police vehicle was torched, upazila nirbahi officer was attacked, cocktails were exploded, brick bats were hurled, and the NCP rally venue and motorcade were attacked.
The police fired rubber bullets, hurled sound grenades, and lobbed tear gas shells while members of the Bangladesh Army opened fire in the air to disperse Awami League activists and to save the NCP leaders.
