It was a rainy night in July 2008. Residents of some bordering villages in Sunamganj’s Tahirpur upazila heard a sound of landslide coming from a hill across the border.
4 detained for beating up Sunamganj journalist
Kamal Hossain is undergoing treatment at Tahirpur Upazila Health Complex. Photo: Collected Star Online Report Star Online Report
Police today detained four over the assault of journalist Kamal Hossain yesterday. He was reporting on illegal sand and stone lifting at the bank of the Jadukata river in Sunamganj s Tahirpur.
The detainees are Foysol Ahmed (19), Anharul Islam (20), Tahir Hossain (22), and Masrubul Islam (26) all from Ghagotia village in the upazila.
No cases were filed till 2:30 pm today, our Sylhet correspondent reports. However, a case is expected to be filed later in the day. Dipankar Biswas, a sub-inspector at Tahirpur Police Station, said police are searching for other attackers.
Journalist beaten up in Sunamganj while covering illegal sand, stone lifting
Kamal Hossain is undergoing treatment at Tahirpur Upazila Health Complex. Photo: Collected Star Online Report Star Online Report
A local journalist was tied to a tree and beaten up when he went to cover a report on sand and stone lifted illegally from the bank of Jadukata river in Sunamganj s Tahirpur this afternoon.
Kamal Hossain is the upazila correspondent of national daily Sangbad and organising secretary of the upazila press club.
He is undergoing treatment at Tahirpur Upazila Health Complex, our Sylhet correspondent reports.
Quoting Kamal, local journalist Abir Hasan Manik said that a group of men who were lifting sand and stones, beat him and tied him to a tree in a bazar at Ghagotia village.