The motorcade of Ganajagaran Mancha’s road march came under attack yesterday evening in two separate phases at Bogra’s Sahajanpur and Sherpur upazilas.
A bus of the motorcade was attacked near the Sherpur bus stand at around 7:30pm.
Ali Ahmed Hashmi, officer-in-charge of Sherpur police station, told the Dhaka Tribune that miscreants hurled bricks at a bus of Ganajagaran Mancha’s road march.
Wares, additional superintendent of police in Bogra, said the glass of a bus window had broken and no one had been injured in the incident.
Meanwhile, Abdul Mannan, the OC of Sajahanpur police station, told the Dhaka Tribune that some unidentified miscreants hurled three crude bombs at a bus of the motorcade at around 8:30pm.
Later, police shot five rounds of rubber bullets in the area.
Ganajagaran Mancha activist Baki Billah, who was there with the motorcade, said at least six to seven people had been injured in the attacks.
Maksudul Islam, a war-wounded freedom fighter, received injuries as the broken shards of window glasses were embedded in his body after bricks were thrown at the moving bus.
In another bus, several others including Chatra Moitree leader Tanvir Rusmat were injured, Baki Billah claimed.
Earlier yesterday afternoon, three crude bombs were also hurled at a rally of Ganajagaran Mancha in Sathmatha area of Bogra.
Ganajagaran Mancha’s road march is on its way towards Thakurgaon to protest the recent atrocities against members of the local Hindu community, centering their participation on the 10th parliamentary elections.
