, Sept. 2 -- Two staff members of Roads and Highways Department were injured in an attack by some miscreants during an eviction drive on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur district on Tuesday.

The injured were identified as Rabiul Hossain, a surveyor and section officer Saidur Rahman.

Executive Engineer of Roads and Highways Department, Gazipur, Shariful Islam, said an eviction drive, led by Ashfaqul Haque Chowdhury, executive engineer of the department along with police, was conducted at C&B Bazar in Sreepur upazila, stretching from Gargaria Masterbari to Mawna Chowrasta to evict the structures occupied illegally on Tuesday.

During the drive, 70 illegal establishments were evicted till Tuesday afternoon.

At one st...