A 52-second video shows a man confronting the student leader and making abusive remarks before moving towards him aggressively.
Hasibul Islam. File Photo: Collected
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Hasibul Islam. File Photo: Collected
Hasibul Islam, president of Dhaka University-based Jatiya Chhatra Shakti and a coordinator of the Students Against Discrimination (SAD), was attacked while visiting Sreemangal in Moulvibazar today (10 November).
The incident took place around noon in front of Balishira Resort in the Radhanagar area of Sreemangal upazila.
The 52-second video of the incident has since circulated on social media.
It shows a man approaching the moving battery-powered auto-rickshaw carrying Hasibul and a young woman, and making abusive and provocative remarks towards the student leader, including calling him a “militant” and a “July militant”.
The man is then seen shaking hands with Hasibul before making further offensive remarks and suddenly moving towards him aggressively. Hasibul gets out of the auto-rickshaw and runs away. A shadow visible towards the end of the video appears to indicate that the man was carrying a machete.
According to resort employees, the man attacked Hasibul shortly after the auto-rickshaw left the resort, forcing him to run back towards the premises to escape.
The employees, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Hasibul had been staying at the resort for three days and was leaving for Chattogram today. They later noticed a cut on his hand, which they said appeared to have been caused by a machete. Resort staff applied a bandage to stop the bleeding before he left for the railway station.
Speaking to media, Hasibul alleged that leaders and activists of the banned Chhatra League were behind the attack.
Kamrul Hossain Chowdhury, in-charge of the Tourist Police (Sreemangal zone), said they had heard about the incident but no one had filed a complaint.
“We are looking into the matter,” he said.
Sreemangal Police Station Officer-in-Charge Sarkar Abdul Al Mamun said police had also heard about the incident but could not find Hasibul at the hospital.
“Through a member of the National Citizen Party (NCP), we learnt that he had left Sreemangal,” he said.
Khaled Hasan, convener of the NCP’s Moulvibazar district unit, said they had discussed the incident with the party’s central leaders after learning about it and would file a case.
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