Chief Adviser urges all to keep calm

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has directed the authorities concerned to conduct an investigation into the killing of a lawyer in Chattogram port city and take appropriate legal measures to this end.

In a statement issued by the chief adviser's press wing on Tuesday, Prof Yunus also ordered the law enforcement agencies to step up security in the port city, including in all the vulnerable neighbourhoods.

Condemning the murder of the lawyer, he urged people to keep calm and stay away from participating in any untoward activities.

The interim government is committed to ensuring and upholding communal harmony in Bangladesh at any cost, the statement read.

An intern lawyer was killed in a clash over a court order to send Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari to jail on Tuesday afternoon.

The deceased is Saiful Islam Alif.  Many people were injured in the clash.

Saiful Islam Alif was taken to Chattogram Medical College Hospital at around 3:30pm where duty doctors declared him dead.