Staff Correspondent

At least seven police personnel including a deputy and an assistant commissioners of police of Ramna division were injured in an attack by the protesters against violence on women at the Hotel InterContinetal intersection in the capital's Shahbagh area, this afternoon.

Ramna Division Deputy Police Commissioner Md. Masud Alam, Assistant Commissioner Abdullah Al Mamun, two female police personnel and three male constables were injured in the attack. Of them, Mamun suffered critical injuries, said a police press release here.

The statement said that police intercepted a group of 60/70 people, including men and women at Hotel InterContinental intersection at Shahbagh around 3:35pm when they (protesters) were heading towards Jamuna, the official residence of Chief Adviser.

The protesters used women as shields to move towards Jamuna after breaking the police barricade there.

When police requested the protesters to move away in the interest of the security of important state installations nearby and maintaining normal traffic, they attacked the police and started behaving arrogantly and violently, the press release said.

At one stage, they engaged in a scuffle with the police and threw brickbats and stones at the police personnel. Several policemen were injured in the attack, it added.

Later, police brought the situation under control by dispersing the protesters. Legal action is underway against those involved in the attack on police forces.