3 detained in connection with New Market clashes

RAB on Thursday claimed to have detained three people in connection with the recent clashes at New Market that claimed two lives.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Thursday claimed to have detained three people in connection with the recent clashes at New Market that claimed two lives.
The three were detained from Shariatpur and Cox’s Bazar districts on Wednesday night, Rab sources said. Their identities of could not be known immediately.
Among them, one was detained in connection with the deaths of two people while two others were for fuelling the clashes.
Two people were killed and more than 30 others, including journalists and students, were injured as the students of Dhaka College clashed with the traders of New Market at Nilkhet intersection recently.
Shopkeepers alleged that the students were beaten up as they had refused to foot the bill at an eatery.
Police subsequently registered four cases against 1,400 people in connection with the clashes.
Earlier on April 28, police arrested five students of Dhaka College in connection with the clashes at New Market.
AKM Hafiz Akter, additional commissioner of the detective branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, had said that the five were directly involved in the clashes between the Dhaka College students and New Market shopkeepers.
Later, they were placed on police remand on the same day.