Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has been deployed across Brahmanbaria town after a three-way clash between local madrasa students, local businessmen and Chhatra League men left one dead.
Madrasa students took positions at different points of the district town on Tuesday morning, blocking roads and protesting the death of their fellow student.
The agitating students also called a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Wednesday.
Police fire rubber bullets to disperse the agitating madrasa students Photo: Dhaka Tribune
BGB Battalion 12 commander Lieutenant Colonel Nazrul Islam said: “Four platoons of BGB have been deployed in the town to prevent a repeat of Monday's incident.”
A BGB platoon typically consists of 35 soldiers.
Sadar police station Officer-in-Charge Akul Chondra Bishwas said the police were also on alert.
Madrasa students also carried out vandalism in Brahmanbaria Railway Station and removed fishplates from railway tracks, halting the train communication on Dhaka-Sylhet-Chittagong route.
The madrasa students carry out vandalism on Brahmanbaria Railway Station Photo: Dhaka Tribune
In the afternoon, they vandalised local MP Obaidul Moktadir Chowdhury's office, Proshika office, house of former Chhatra League leader Mahmudul Haque Bhuiyan and a branch of Bank Asia.
Hafez Masudur Rahman died on Tuesday morning after being injured in clashes on Monday.
