180 sued over Laxmipur clash

Dhaka – A case was filed against 180 people in connection with Friday’s triangular clash among police, villagers and devotees in Tumchar area in  Laxmipur of Sadar upazila.Faruk Hossain, sub-inspector of Sadar Police Station, filed the case on Saturday morning against 30 named people and 150 unnamed ones.Police also arrested 10 people in connection with the incident.A S M Mahtab Uddin, superintendent of police (SP) of Laxmipur, a group of 60/70 villagers attacked the followers of ‘Sureswar Majar’ during their ‘mahfil’ in the area on Friday evening that led to a clash.At one stage police fired several  rounds of bullet to bring the situation under control, leaving 25 people, including five with bullets, injured.Eight policemen, including Abdullah Al Mamun Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge of Sadar police station, were also injured in the clash.UNB agency