College students from native non secular college vandalise venue set to host girls’s match, a day after comparable incident in one other metropolis.
A girls’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 girls’s staff and one other from close by Rangpur, however the venue and its services had been vandalised, native organisers mentioned.
“The Islamists in our space gathered in a discipline and marched towards the venue. There have been a whole bunch of them,” event organiser Samiul Hasan Emon informed the AFP information company.
“The state of affairs worsened, and we needed to cancel as we speak’s occasion.”
Abu Bakkar Siddique, the headmaster of an area non secular college, mentioned he had joined the demonstration along with his college students and academics and pupils from a number of different non secular faculties.
“Women soccer is un-Islamic,” he mentioned. “It’s our non secular responsibility to cease something that goes in opposition to our beliefs.”
The incident occurred after one other match was postponed within the close by metropolis Dinajpur on Tuesday following the same demonstration by protesters wielding sticks.
“The match was suspended half an hour earlier than it was speculated to kick off. We needed to rapidly transfer the ladies to a safer place,” instructor Moniruzzaman Zia informed AFP.
Native authorities officer Amit Roy mentioned 4 folks 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 ladies have full rights to take part in it,” BFF media supervisor Sadman Sakib mentioned in a press release.
