A clash between police and cadres of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, left two policemen and one activist injured in the capital’s Hazaribagh last evening.
The policemen were injured when the Chhatra Shibir activists charged bombs at them while the other suffered a bullet injury on his leg as the police fired gunshots during the clash, said M Iqbal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Hazaribagh police station.
Injured Sub-Inspector Abdur Rahim, and an unidentified constable were admitted to Rajarbagh Police Lines Hospital while the injured Chhatra Shibir activist was being treated at Dhaka Medical College Hospital under police custody.
The injured Shibir activist, Abdul Malek, 25, is a resident of Chharakghata on Tali Office Road.
“Law enforcers came under attack when they took an attempt to enter a four-storey building at Chharakghata in Hazaribagh on information that a group of Chhatra Shibir cadres were making bombs at the house to carry out subversive acts,” said OC Iqbal Hossain.
The Shibir cadres charged bombs repeatedly at the law enforcers, who retaliated with gunshots leading to the clash. “There were several cadres of Chhatra Shibir, but they fled the scene leaving one of them,” the OC Iqbal said.
Police recovered several crude bombs and materials used for making bombs at the house.
Earlier on Friday, police arrested five leaders and activists of Jamaat while they were allegedly holding a meeting at a house in the same area. Of them, two were the rokans of Jamaat and the others were its members.
Meanwhile, in another drive in the afternoon, police on Saturday arrested 12 alleged cadres of Chhatra Shibir with 10 crude bombs at a house in the capital’s Malibagh area.