Dhaka, Sep 28 (PTI) At least three people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday as clashes flared up in parts of the southeastern Bangladesh hills between aboriginal tribesmen and the settler Bengali community despite intensified security over alleged gang rape of a tribal girl.

Police confirmed the deaths of three men without elaborating on their identities, while residents and witnesses said both feuding sides turned violent, setting ablaze each other’s businesses and households in Khagrachhari hill district, some 270 kilometres northeast of Dhaka on the motorway.

The clashes occurred following an alleged gang rape of an eighth-grade schoolgirl in Khagrachhari district on Tuesday, one of the three hill districts of Chittagong Hill Tracts bordering India and Myanmar. The home minis

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