- Wednesday, May 01, 2024
By: Sattwik Biswal
Four people were killed in police firing after protesters stormed a police station in Chittagong on Friday (26), during a demonstration against Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh.
Modi is on a two-day visit to mark Bangladesh’s 50 years of independence.
In Chittagong, thousands of supporters of an Islamist group that alleges Modi of alienating minority Muslims in India, came out of mosques after prayers to protest against his visit, police official Rafiqul Islam said.
“We had to fire teargas and rubber bullets to disperse them as they entered a police station and carried out extensive vandalism,” the police official told Reuters.
However, another police official, Mohammad Alauddin, said a Chittagong hospital had received eight people with gunshot wounds. “Among them four succumbed to their injuries,” he said.
He identified the dead as three students and a tailor.
An eye witness, Jahangir Alam said: “Hundreds of protesters clashed with police near a large mosque in Dhaka, with dozens getting hurt when police fired rubber bullets and teargas after protesters pelted them with stones and set ablaze motorcycles.”
