College students from native non secular college vandalise venue set to host ladies’s match, a day after related incident in one other metropolis.
A ladies’s soccer match in Bangladesh has been cancelled after protests by college students from a standard non secular college broken the venue, the second such incident in as many days.
The northwestern metropolis of Joypurhat was on account of host a pleasant soccer match on Wednesday between its district ladies’s workforce and one other from close by Rangpur, however the venue and its amenities had been vandalised, native organisers stated.
“The Islamists in our space gathered in a subject and marched towards the venue. There have been tons of of them,” event organiser Samiul Hasan Emon advised the AFP information company.
“The state of affairs worsened, and we needed to cancel at the moment’s occasion.”
Abu Bakkar Siddique, the headmaster of an area non secular college, stated he had joined the demonstration along with his college students and lecturers and pupils from a number of different non secular colleges.
“Ladies soccer is un-Islamic,” he stated. “It’s our non secular obligation to cease something that goes towards our beliefs.”
The incident occurred after one other match was postponed within the close by metropolis Dinajpur on Tuesday following an identical demonstration by protesters wielding sticks.
“The match was suspended half an hour earlier than it was presupposed to kick off. We needed to rapidly transfer the ladies to a safer place,” trainer Moniruzzaman Zia advised AFP.
Native authorities officer Amit Roy stated 4 individuals had been injured when protesters and counterdemonstrators lobbed bricks at one another however all had since been discharged from hospital.
Wednesday’s incident was swiftly condemned by the Bangladesh Soccer Federation (BFF).
“Soccer is for everybody, and girls have full rights to take part in it,” BFF media supervisor Sadman Sakib stated in an announcement.
