Five Jubo League men remanded

A court in Magura has placed five accused on a two-day remand in a case filed in connection with the Jubo League factional clash that killed a person and left an expecting mother and her baby inside the womb wounded by bullets. Senior Judicial Magistrate Imtiajul Islam passed. Earlier, a 7-month expecting mother, Nazma Begum, 30, her uncle-in-law Momin Bhuiyan, 65, and another man, Miraz, 30, suffered bullet injuries as they were caught in the line of fire during a clash between two groups of local units of Awami Jubo League over establishing supremacy at Doarpara in Magura Sadar upazila on the evening of July 23. They were taken to Sadar Hospital where Nazma gave birth to a baby through caesarean section on that night. It was found after the birth that the newborn also suffered bullet wounds while in the womb. Momin Bhuiyan succumbed to his injuries at the hospital on July 25. Later, the baby of Nazma was admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the capital on July 25. A case was filed against 16 people with Magura Sadar Police Station on July 26. Police have so far arrested nine of the accused while two more surrendered before court. The rest are still on the run, according to a news agency.
- biplab