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At least 20 people, including a senior naval police officer, were injured in an attack by fishermen while campaigning to conserve the hilsa in Chandpur. The incident took place at 11 a.m. Sunday in the Laxmirchar area of the Durgamchar Rajrajeshwar Union of Padma-Meghna in Chandpur. Several of the injured were treated for the first time at Chandpur General Hospital. Later he was taken to Dhaka for water for better treatment.
It is known that since the early hours of Sunday night, helicopters of the Bangladesh Air Force launched air and naval operations in various areas of the Padma and Meghna rivers in Chandpur. After a few hours of operation, the air force helicopter returned to Dhaka, but the naval police continued the operation on the river. Around 11 am, a naval police convoy spotted several fishing boats in a canal in Laxmirchar in the Rajrajeshwar union of Sadar upazila and went to carry out an operation. At that time, organized fishermen and their families attacked the naval police with local weapons. At least 20 policemen were injured. At that moment, members of the naval police withdrew firing small arms.
Additional Superintendent of Police (Media) Farida Parveen, working at the Naval Police Headquarters, Deputy Superintendent of Police. Helaluddin, deputy inspector. Elias Matabbar, Naik said. Shahjalal, Iqbal Hossain, Mujahidul Islam, Md. Mamun, Ferdous Sheikh, Niloy Dev, Sheriff Prosenjit Das, Al Amin, Md. Kauser and Md. Monaim. In addition, the naval police, the Chandpur area police superintendent, Farid Ahmed, and six other senior police officers were injured.
The assistant superintendent of police for the Chandpur area said the victim. Helaluddin said the fishermen hit him on the head and threw him to the ground before he understood anything. At that moment, the companions arrived at the scene and rescued him.
Additional Police Superintendent (Media) Farida Parveen, who works at the Naval Police Headquarters, said they were surrounded by hundreds of fishermen and their relatives who had just arrived ashore from boats and speedboats carrying them. At that time the fishermen and their relatives used local weapons. The police attacked by shooting the sartaganera in target to handle the situation with the wounded who left the place.
The injured were taken to Chandpur General Hospital at noon. Several of them received first aid there. Five of the seriously injured have been sent by boat to Dhaka for better treatment.
Resident physician at Chandpur General Hospital. Sujaudaula Rubel said most of the injured had head and body injuries. However, everyone is much safer.
No one was able to confirm how many prisoners were detained or injured in the incident and how many shotgun rounds were fired. On the other hand, the Naval Police sank more than a hundred fishing boats in the operation that began Sunday morning. Following this incident, the reckless fishermen were enraged and attacked the naval police.
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