At least three people have been killed and dozens were injured on Sunday as clashes erupted in parts of the southeastern Bangladesh hills between aboriginal tribesmen and the settler Bengali community despite intensified security over the alleged gang rape of a tribal girl.

Police confirmed the deaths of three men but did not release their identities. Residents and witnesses reported that both sides in the feud resorted to violence, setting fire to each other’s homes and businesses in Khagrachhari hill district, around 270 kilometres northeast of Dhaka along the motorway, news agency PTI reported.

The unrest followed the 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 Myanma

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