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| Bangladesh |
| 9 beaten up on suspicion of robbery |
| 2010-01-16 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Villagers beat up nine persons, including a journalist, suspecting them as robbers in Ketua village Thursday night. Locals said villagers beat up a group of youths who were returning home from a friend's house around 9:00pm. Police rescued the victims and held them at Chandpur Model Police Station. The detained were Shawkat Ali, a local correspondent of daily Banglabazar, Habibur Rahman, Arif, Kamrul Islam, Jitu, Fahim Akter Nijum, Saddam Hossain, Jahangir Hossain and Arif Hossain. Abdur Rahim, sub-inspector of the police station, said police detained the youths to save them from mob beating. "We identified the youths after talking to some of their acquaintances at the police station," he added. Abdur Rahim added that the friends of the youths were beaten too, as they soon went to Ketua. Three of them were severely injured and are undergoing treatment at Chandpur General Hospital. The detained were sent to jail under section 54. |
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| Posted by: Priscilla Dingdong 2010-01-16 09:58 |