Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday said BNP supporters showered brickbats on police personnel and killed a cop during their grand rally in the city's Naya Paltan area.
"They (BNPmen) killed a policeman," he told journalists after visiting the injured police personnel at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Inspection General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun and Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Habibur Rahman accompanied the home minister.
"We had information that they would carry out such an incident. And they did it. But police tackled the incident with patience," Kamal said, adding that the police will also deal with such incidents patiently in the future.
BNP is just repeating its activities that the party carried out in 2014, he said, adding that though BNP called a down-to-dusk hartal on Sunday, everything will remain normal.
