Rangpur people demand arrest of Santal attackers

Speakers also asked law enforcers to arrest Gobindaganj local lawmaker Abul Kalam Azad immediately, in the program. Local political leaders, activists, cultural people were present at the program. Earlier, Santals of Sahebganj-Bagda Farm area in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha, came under police firing on November 6 when they protested eviction from their ancestral land by a group of people allegedly loyal to the local lawmaker. The evictors drove the Santals away and looted their homes and burned them to the ground. Three Santals were killed and more than 30 people were injured in the clashes.