BNP condemns attacks on Islamists

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir condemned and protested Friday’s police attacks on ‘peaceful protest programmes’ of the Islamist groups in Dhaka, Chattogram and Brahmanbaria.

In a statement, the BNP secretary general said that the police attacked a peaceful protest in front of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque after Jumma prayer while a huge number of Islamist activists were injured.

The students of Hathazari Madrassah in Chattogram had brought out a procession on their institution premises where four were killed in a police firing.

Fakhul condemned such killings on the country’s Independence Day and demanded exemplary punishments for the killers.

Fakhrul, terming Awami League government as illegal, alleged that the police and the Bangladesh Chhatra League activists had jointly launched the attacks on the Islamists.

‘People will resist such barbaric attacks,’ he said and prayed for the deceased ones and early recovery of the wounded people.

The clashes occurred during protests against a two-day visit of Narendra Modi, prime minister of India, to Bangladesh. His visit ends Saturday.

During Friday’s protests, a total of five protesters were killed and over 100 were injured in clashes between the protesters and police along with the ruling party activists in Dhaka, Chattogram and Brahmanbaria.