<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A case was filed on Sunday accusing 150 BNP men of attempting to snatch away arms from police during a clash with supporters of the main opposition BNP in Bancharampur upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Afzal Hossain Khan, sub-inspector of Bancharampur police station, filed the case, naming 17 BNP men including the upazila unit’s former Organising Secretary Md Rafiql Islam and 137 others without names.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, leaders and activists of the BNP and its associate bodies held a protest procession in the upazila and demanded justice for the murder.</div><div><br></div><div>A tense situation was prevailing in the upazila over the Saturday’s clash that left a Jatiyatabi Chattra Dal leader dead and several others injured.</div><div><br></div><div>Molla Md Shaheen, additional superintendent of the district police, said a case was filed on behalf of the police over the attempts to snatch arms from police.</div><div><br></div><div>“An investigation was going on to unearth the reason for the murder and the exact reason will be known after getting the autopsy report,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday afternoon, the JCD leader was shot to death in a clash between police and the BNP men over the arrest of one of their leaders in the upazila.</div><div><br></div><div>The deceased was identified as Nayon Miah, 22, vice president of Sonarampur union parishad unit JCD and son of Rahmat Ullah of Charshibpur under the upazila.</div><div><br></div><div>Several people including six policemen and BNP activists were also injured in the clash while two BNP men were detained in this connection.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP men distributed leaflets among general people to woo them to join their Cumilla’s grand rally slated for November 26.</div><div><br></div><div>After the publicity, they brought out a procession led by local leader VP Sayeduzzaman from the Molla Bari area and again gathered there after parading several roads.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, a team of police led by the OC took a position in front of the Bari and tried to pick Sayeduzzaman up from the spot while the BNP men were resisting.</div><div><br></div><div>At one stage, the police and the BNP men locked into an altercation which resulted in pelting brickbats and opening several rounds of bullets around 4pm, they claimed.</div><div><br></div><div>Nayon fell down after being hit by a bullet and several others also sustained injuries in the attack,</div><div><br></div><div>He was first rushed to Bancharampur Upazila Health Complex. Later he was shifted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where physicians pronounced him dead on arrival around 7:30pm. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>