Police arrested an accused in a case filed in connection with the Juba League factional clash in Magura that killed a person and left an expecting mother and her baby inside the womb wounded by bullets, from the Magura court area yesterday, reports UNB.
The arrestee was identified as Ali Akbar, 30, a poura unit Juba League leader and son of Mahmud Ullah of Doarpara in the district town.
Tipped off, a team of police conducted a drive in the area and arrested him in the afternoon. He was the no 2 accused in the first information report of the case, said police. With Ali, 10 people have been arrested so far in this connection.
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 Jubo 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 section 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 the Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the capital on July 25.
A case was filed against 16 people with Magura Sadar Police Station on July 26.
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