A human chain led by Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) Bogura district office was formed protesting the terrorist attack on Gholam Yazdani, the executive engineer of Chittagong LGED and the project director of Chittagong City Corporation and Sub- Assistant Engineer of Sherpur Upazila LGED office in Bogura district on Tuesday.

LGED Bogura Regional Supervising Engineer Md Golam Kabir, Executive Engineer Md Golam Morshed, Executive Engineer of Superintendent Engineer Office Md Sadrul Islam and Md Zahurul Islam, Senior Assistant Engineer Md Ali took part in this program in front of Bogura-Santahar Road in Nishindara district office.

At this time, the speakers demanded strict punishment for all the criminals who participated in the hateful attacks in various parts of the country, including the Sahabuddin Bahini of Chittagong city who attacked the tireless hardworking, honest and devoted engineer Yazdani.

The speakers in the human chain strongly condemned the above incident and demanded exemplary punishment to immediately bring those involved in the incident under the law.

It is known that a group of contractors reportedly assaulted a project director of a development scheme of the Chattogram City Corporation on Sunday at his office allegedly for not getting work.

It was alleged that the attackers ransacked his office on the 3rd floor of the temporary head office building of the city corporation at Tiger pass in the city.

The victim Engineer Golam Yazdani told that he came to his office at Tiger pass at around 4:15pm after the general meeting of the city corporation which was held in the old city building at Andarkilla of the city.

“Soon after settling in the office, about 20-25 contractors entered his room without permission and started assaulting him suddenly while he was talking. During this time, the attackers continuously punched him,” he said.

Office Assistant Tilak Dey was also assaulted by them when he tried to rescue the project director. The attackers left the place after about 10 minutes of assault.

Engineer Gholam Yazdani is the director of Tk2, 500 crore worth projects of road development and other important infrastructural development including the airport road under the city corporation.