The activists who were protesting at Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh locked in a clash with police in Baitul Mukarrom National Mosque area in Dhaka after Jumma prayer on Friday.
Several people, including a journalist, were injured in the clash.
The incident took place about three hours after the Indian prime minister arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital at about 10:30am on a two-day visit to join the concluding ceremony of the 10-day special programme marking the country’s golden jubilee of independence and birth centenary of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Despite of the presence of huge number of police in the mosque area, the protesters, immediately after the jumma prayers at the Baitul Mukarrom National Mosque, tried to bring out a procession at about 1:45pm denouncing Modi’s visit to Bangladesh.
The police barred their procession at the mosque gate, the witnesses said.
The agitated protesters, then, went back inside the mosque and its premises close to northern gate and began to throw brick bats targeting the police who were already in position outside the mosque.
The police, meanwhile, began to fire teargas shells targeting the protesters on the mosque premises.
The clash was continued till filing the report at about 2:15pm.
Different organisations have been protesting against Modi’s visit to Bangladesh for past several days.
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