Dhaka, Oct. 15 -- Chattogram's Baraiyahat municipality mayor and local Awami League (AL) leader Rezaul Karim sustained bullet injuries as another group of the ruling party men attacked him over extracting sand from Feni River.

Two others, Ashok Sen and Shahed Khan, were also injured in the attack that took place at around 11 on Friday morning at Osmanpur Bazar under Osmanpur union in Mirsharai upazila.

Witnesses said mayor Rezaul and his associates went to Feni river in Mirsharai to extract sand for a power plant in Karerhat union in Chattogram's Mirsharai upazila. Supporters of Feni sadar upazila's Fazilpur union

parishad chairman and Fazilpur union Awami League president Mojibul Haque attacked the mayor and his associates leaving the...