Online Desk:
At least three journalists were allegedly beaten up by BNP protesters during today’s clashes around the Kakrail area in the capital.
The injured journalists are Rafsan Jani, a Daily Kalbela reporter; Md Masum, a photographer of Daily Inqilab and Tanvir Ahammed, a multimedia journalist of the Daily Ittefaq.
They have been treated at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Rafsan came under attack when he was recording an assault on a cop by BNP men at Kakrail’s Nightingale intersection, he told reporters after taking treatment at DMCH.
The protesters allegedly snatched Rafsan’s phone and beat him with rods and sticks. At one stage he fell to the ground, but the protesters didn’t stop assaulting him.
At one point Rafsanjani, who repeatedly told the protesters that he was a journalist on duty, ran to a twelve-storey tower in the area where other journalists present intervened and rescued him.
The two other journalists were assaulted by the protesters around the Kakrail area.
