Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu yesterday said legal action will be taken against those involved in Juba League factional clash in Magura that killed a person and left an expecting mother and her baby inside the womb wounded by bullets, reports UNB.
“The culprits will be brought to book, no matter how powerful they are,” he said while talking to reporters after visiting the injured mother and her baby at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
“You have seen that law enforces have already arrested some people involved in the incident”, the minister said.
A seven-month expecting mother, Nazma Begum, 30, her uncle-in-law Momin Bhuiyan, 65, and another man, Miraz, 30, suffered bullet injuries as they were caught in the line of fire during a clash between two groups of Juba League over establishing supremacy at Doarpara in Magura sadar upazila on the evening of July 23.
They were taken to Sadar Hospital where Nazma gave birth to a baby through caesarean operation on that night. It was found after the birth that the newborn also suffered bullet wounds while in the womb.
Momin Bhuiyan succumbed to his injuries at the hospital on July 25.
Later, the baby of Nazma was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the capital on July 25.
On July 28, the Dhaka Medical College Hospital authorities formed an eight-member medical team for proper treatment of the newborn.
On July 30, the newborn was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. A case was filed against 16 people with Magura sadar police station on July 26.
Four people have so far been arrested in connection with the incident.
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