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Hefajat mayhem: Brahmanbaria municipality suspends all activities

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The authority of Brahmanbaria municipality has suspended all activities for indefinite period due to the severe damages caused by Hefajat-e-Islam activists and supporters.

Hefajat men went on rampage at the municipality during the countrywide hartal enforced by the group on March 28.

The municipality authorities issued a notice in this regard yesterday and detailed the damages, reports our Brahmanbaria correspondent.

The municipality authorities have not been able to remove garbage from March 28 to April 3 as the vehicle for carrying garbage was burnt, the notice reads.

Nayar Kabir, mayor of the municipality, told our correspondent, “Everything in the municipality and municipality auditorium were set on fire, using gunpowder and petrol. It is uncertain when the activities of the municipality will be resumed.”

According to the notice, 20 steel cupboards, 25 wooden cupboards, 18 computers, five laptops, four photocopy machines, 34 tables, seven secretariat tables, 115 chairs and five ACs — all belonging to the municipality — were damaged in the vandalism and arson.

Twelve freezers, four refrigerators, vaccines, ceiling fans, 10,000 LED lamps, 3,000 light sheds, 50 coils of electric wires, 16 vehicles, three road rollers, one mosquito repellent vehicle and many other items were also damaged, it said.

The goods of the municipality’s storage branch, stationery products, documents, including pay order approval of house plan, check registers, issue registers, cash books, asset registers, personal documents and service books of all officers and employees, all registers and bills of contractors were burnt in the fire, the notice added.

Besides, Hefajat men also set fire to the Ustad Alauddin Khan Auditorium owned by the municipality. Five hundred chairs, 20 sets of sofas, 20 5-ton ACs, 10 2-ton ACs and 150 ceiling fans were burnt to ashes.