Report - Serious Clash between Two Rival Groups of Villagers

Serious Clash Between Two Rival Groups of Villagers

Hasan Mahmud, Mymensingh, 05 April: Two rival groups of Rasulpur village in Mymensingh locked in a serious clash over a football match that killed one and left thirty injured. The clashes began when the Young Boys' Club scored their second goal against the New Star Sporting Club.

The supporters of the New Star Sporting Club demanded for cancelling the goal as they told the referee that it was an offside. But the referee denied it and then it turned into clash between the supporters of the two teams. The villagers took sides of the supporters and it spread among them.

At one stage they took out local made arms and attacked others. A teenager was killed in the spot and more than thirty became injured. Among them thirty persons were seriously injured and they were sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.

Meanwhile, police raided the village and arrested four people allegedly involved in the clash.