30 hurt as BCL, Shibir clash in Comilla

COMILLA, Mar 28 (UNB): At least 30 people were injured in a clash between the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Islami Chhatra Shibir at Natherpetua in Monohorganj Upazila Thursday.
Local sources said activists of the upzila unit BCL caught Anwar Hossain, finance secretary of the Monoharganj unit (East) of Shibir, and informed police after confining him to a room of Natherpetua Fazil Madrasah in the morning.
Following the incident, a clash broke out between the activists of local BCL and Shibir when about 100 activists of Shibir went to the spot to snatch away their leader.
At one stage, both the groups attacked each other, leaving 30 people injured.
Jakir Hossain, an Awami League-backed candidate of Monohorganj Upazila election, was among the injured.
The BCL activists also set fire to a library of Shibir-run Islami Social Welfare Parishad during the clash.
Mohamamd Harun-or-Rashid, officer-in-charge (OC) of Monohorganj Police Station, said some jihadi (religion uprising) books, one crude bomb and some joint pieces of pipe were recovered from the Shibir office.
Police arrested two people in this connection.