The administration has declared high alert in Rangamati after two deaths in the hill tracts flared unrest.
"The law enforcement agencies have been asked to be on high alert to avoid unwanted incidents, since the situation in the district has become somewhat sensitive," Rangamati superintendent of police Masud-ul Hasan said on Wednesday night.
He said the alert may last two to three days.
Earlier, the administration imposed Section 144 in Baghaichharhi, banning all sorts of gathering, following tension between the ethnic minorities and the Bengali settlers.
A woman of ethnic minority origin was killed in Khagrachharhi's Dighinala in the morning reportedly by Bengali settlers agitated at the 'murder' of a Bengali motorcyclist.
The body of Abdus Sattar, 27, the motorcyclist, was found in Rangamati's Baghaichharhi area.
The settlers in Dighinala took out a procession protesting the killing of Sattar, who was from Kabakhali's Muslimpara area.
At one stage of demonstration, they hurled brickbats on a jeep carrying passengers from ethnic minorities, police told
Chigon Mila, 43, who was injured in the attack, died in Khagrachharhi Sadar Hospital around 10:30am, they said.
The two political groups in the hill tracts have blamed each other for the incidents in separate statements.
"The law enforcement agencies have been asked to be on high alert to avoid unwanted incidents, since the situation in the district has become somewhat sensitive," Rangamati superintendent of police Masud-ul Hasan said on Wednesday night.
He said the alert may last two to three days.
Earlier, the administration imposed Section 144 in Baghaichharhi, banning all sorts of gathering, following tension between the ethnic minorities and the Bengali settlers.
A woman of ethnic minority origin was killed in Khagrachharhi's Dighinala in the morning reportedly by Bengali settlers agitated at the 'murder' of a Bengali motorcyclist.
The body of Abdus Sattar, 27, the motorcyclist, was found in Rangamati's Baghaichharhi area.
The settlers in Dighinala took out a procession protesting the killing of Sattar, who was from Kabakhali's Muslimpara area.
At one stage of demonstration, they hurled brickbats on a jeep carrying passengers from ethnic minorities, police told
Chigon Mila, 43, who was injured in the attack, died in Khagrachharhi Sadar Hospital around 10:30am, they said.
The two political groups in the hill tracts have blamed each other for the incidents in separate statements.
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