350 Ansar members held over attack on students, army

The police have detained around 350 Ansar members over the attack on students and army personnel outside the Bangladesh Secretariat on Sunday night.

Md Sarwar Zahan, deputy commissioner of Ramna Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, informed this on Monday.

He said 350 Ansar members were detained till Sunday night and a process to file a case against them is underway.

On Sunday noon, the Ansar personnel blocked the five gates of the Secretariat in Dhaka, demanding the nationalisation of their job. 

Around 9:30 pm, students from several halls of resident of Dhaka University gathered in Secretariat area following a news spread that Sarjis Alam and Hasnat Abdullah, two key coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Students’ Movement, were confined by the Ansar members.

Later, the students and the Ansar personnel clashed, leaving 70 people, most of them students, injured.

The Ansar members attacked the army personnel deployed for maintaining law and order in Secretariat area and injured six ones, according to the Directorate of the Inter Services Public Relations, ISPR.

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