At least 30 people were injured yesterday while several houses and shops were torched in Sherpur-Jamalpur district’s peripheral border as hundreds of people from two neighbouring villages of the districts locked in a clash following an argument over purchasing a mobile SIM card.
They also vandalised houses and looted valuables from shops during the series of clashes among the villagers.
Jamalpur sadar police, Sherpur police, armed police and the RAB members were deployed in the area and ten round bullets were fired to bring the situation under control.
Witnesses said a villager of Chonkanda village in Jamalpur had an altercation with a villager of Kulurchar village in Sherpur on Tuesday night at the bridge over the River Brahmaputra. They then also involved themselves in a scuffle.
After the altercation between the two, a wave of anger spread among the villagers of Chonkanda and Kulurchar—the two neighbouring villages situated on the two sides of the bridge.
At first, the agitated villagers of Chonkanda rampaged through Kulurchar yesterday in the morning. They made the attack with local sharp weapons and sticks and vandalised eight houses and 10 shops.
After that, the villagers of Kulurchar made a counter-attack and rampage through the village Chonkanda.
Later, Jamalpur sadar police went to the spot but failed to control the situation. Sherpur police, armed police and the RAB were sent afterwards to foil the fray.
