Bangladesh: Three detectives beats up nurse in Gazipur hospital

Three detectives have been withdrawn today for allegedly beating up a senior nurse of a hospital in Gazipur district of Bangladeh after they failed to arrest a suspect in an abduction case from the hospital.

The three police personnel are Assistant Sub-inspector Mushfiqur Rahman and constables Anwar and Fazlul Haque, reported The Daily Star.

Injured nurse Abul Fazal, 30, was admitted at Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Medical College Hospital in critical condition.

Abul Fazal is General Secretary of Diploma Nurse Association in the same hospital.

A team of DB police went to the hospital's emergency unit around 10:00pm yesterday to visit an accused in a case, who was undergoing treatment at the hospital under their custody.

As they reached the hospital, the team came to know that the suspect fled away from the hospital and later, they caught the senior nurse present there and tried to drag her out of the hospital.

In face of resistance, they beat up the nurse.

Protesting the incident, the doctors and nurses went on a work abstention since last night.