Bangladeshi Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers at the National Mosque of Bangladesh, Baitul Mukarram, in Dhaka yesterday.
IANS/Dhaka
At least one person was killed and more than 100 were injured yesterday in clashes at Eid prayers over not fasting during Ramadan in Bangladesh.
The clashes occurred in five sub-districts of Habiganj district in the Sylhet division,
bdnews24.com reported.
A man identified as Shamim, 50, was beaten to death in Begunai, a village in Lakhai upazila, when followers of the Union Parisad’s former chairman Morshed Kamal Moshahid and a former member clashed because someone who did not keep fast came to attend Eid prayers.
“We later recovered the body,” said Mozammel Haque, Habiganj assistant superintendent of police.
More sporadic clashes were reported in Lakhai, Bahubal, Ajmiriganj, Shayestaganj and Sadar areas over “not fasting during Ramadan” or “delay in Eid prayers”.
More than 100 people were admitted to various hospitals in Habiganj.
Muslims in Bangladesh celebrated Eid al-Fitr yesterday marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former prime minister Khaleda Zia conveyed Eid greetings to the countrymen in separate messages.
The government earlier announced a three-day holiday starting from Monday on the
occasion of Eid al-Fitr.
The national flag of the country will be hoisted atop government and non-government offices while most of the streets and roads are being decorated with flags with ‘Eid Mubarak’ written in Bangla and Arabic.
Special meals will be served in hospitals, jails, government-owned welfare centres and shelter homes for children, socially-handicapped people and the destitute.
Officials said additional forces will be deployed at all strategic points including commercial hubs and main Eid congregation grounds in major cities to heighten security on the day of Eid al-Fitr.
