Several journalists beaten up while covering clash in Dhaka

 Injured journalists. 

Bangladesh desk: Several media personnel were injured while on duty during clashes between the Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists and members of law enforcement agencies in Dhaka’s Kakrail area on Saturday afternoon.

The injured are Dhaka Times’ reporter Salehkin Tarin, Dainik Kalbela’s Rafsan Jonny, Breaking News’ crime reporter Kazi Ihsan Bin Didar, the daily Ittefaq’s multimedia reporter Sheikh Nasir, staff correspondent Habib Sabuj and Inqilab’s photojournalist FM Masum.

Of them, Tarin was admitted at National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, and Rafsan at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Others received treatment from several hospitals.

Rafsan’s colleague Rajan Bhattacharya, senior correspondent at Kalbela, said that Rafsan was recording a video when a clash was going on between BNP activists and police in Kakrail intersection.

Some men attacked Rafsan when he was collecting video footage of BNP activists attacking the police, he said.

‘Rafsan was indiscriminately beaten up despite his ID card hanging around his neck. Moreover the attackers snatched away his mobile phone. His condition is critical,’ he said.

BNP supporters clashed on Saturday with law enforcers in several Dhaka areas centring their scheduled grand rally in Naya Paltan.