BNP secretary general Fakhrul detained from Dhaka home

Bangladesh desk: Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police detained the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, from his residence in Gulshan in Dhaka Sunday morning.

BNP chairperson’s press wing member Shayrul Kabir Khan told New Age that the BNP leader was detained by a team of law enforcement agencies.

The detective branche’s Gulshan additional deputy commissioner Hafiz Al Asad said that they detained Fakhrul from his Gulshan home.

He said that he was taken to the DB office in the city.

DMP’s DB chief Harun Or Rashid at DB office gate told reporters that the BNP secretary general was taken to DB office to ‘talk about yesterday’s subservient acts’ during the main opposition political party’s rally in Dhaka.

The resulting clashes near the venue of the opposition in the city’s Naya Paltan area left at least two people—a police member and a leader of the BNP’s youth wing, Juba Dal—killed and injured scores.

According to police, BNP, and other sources, over 1,000 people, including over 100 policemen, over 30 journalists, and hundreds of BNP leaders and activists, were injured during the clashes at Kakrail, Bijaynagar, Nightingale crossing and Fakirapool.