At least 30 people including two police personnel were injured in a clash between the activists of local Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Kalibari-Eliot Bridge Road in Sirajganj on Sunday.
The BNP office in the area was set ablaze and some shops were vandalised during the rampage at around 11:00am.
Police lobbed at least 50 teargas shells and shot rubber bullets and took the situation under control at around 1:15pm.
Abu Yusuf, additional superintendent of police, confirmed the matter to the journalists.
Among the injured 11 are —Helal Uddin, municipality AL panel mayor; Sohag Molla; Mirza Mostafa Zaman, district BNP organising secretary; Hitler Shamim, assistant organising secretary; Mohammad Ali Swapon; Taikul Hasan, joint general secretary of Chhatra Dal; Zibrail Hossain; Firoz Ahmed; Abdul Hakim, Shecchasebak Dal joint secretary general; sadar thana sub-inspectors Tarikul Islam and Abu Zafar Nayan.
