Two persons were killed as they were run over by a jeep of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that came under attacks of armed BNP men at Badamtali intersection of Patiya upazila yesterday. The BNP men attacked the LDP motorcade and people preventing them from joining an LDP rally on the Patiya Upazila Parishad premises. The attack left over 20 people injured, three of them critically.The dead were identified as Nesar Ahmed and Shah Alam. Witnesses said the two were knocked by a jeep of the LDP motorcade while trying to escape the attackers during the chase and counter-chase and died on the way to Chittagong Medical College and Hospital (CMCH). Local LDP leader Mohammad Ali, also former joint organising secretary of Patiya BNP, said Nesar and Alam left the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and joined the LDP recently. The BNP, however, claimed that they are Patiya JCD leaders.
Addressing the rally, LDP Executive President Col (retd) Oli Ahmed later announced to file a case against former BNP lawmaker Gazi Shahjahan Jewel and JCD leader Rezaul Karim Nesar for the attacks and killing. Oli and LDP central and local leaders were holding a meeting in Chittagong to decide on programmes to protest the incident as of filing of this report last evening.