At least three persons were killed and several others injured as fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami activists turned violent in southeastern Cox's Bazar after Friday prayers to protest against their top leaders' trial for 1971 war crimes, taking the toll in the clashes to 13.
"Three people were killed in the violence and several injured as they (JI activists) suddenly took to the street after the (Friday's Muslim) jumma prayers...They attacked police violently as we intervened," police chief of beach resort district Mohammad Azad Mian told