At least six army personnel were injured, one of them in critically, on Sunday night after the Ansar members suddenly attacked the army men deployed for the security of the Secretariat.
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) disclosed the information in a press release on Monday.
Meanwhile, Ansar members stage demonstration at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Sunday for nationalisation of their jobs.
Referring to the role of the army in the incident, the release reads that army members were deployed to maintain law and order and strengthened the security at different important locations and all gates of the Secretariat to ensure comprehensive security.
Around 10,000 Ansar members gathered at different times on Sunday and surrounded the Bangladesh Secretariat and held seven advisers of the interim government and other senior officials of the Secretariat hostage.
The director general of Ansar and VDP went to the Secretariat on Sunday to pacify the agitated Ansar members and accepted all the demands of the Ansar members, the release said.
However, the agitated Ansar members did not leave the area and confined the Ansar and VDP director general, and some other members also attempted to enter the Secretariat by breaking the Gate No. 3.
The ISPR release reads that at the same time, they also attacked the students present at the spot and assaulted the army men deployed for security in the Secretariat with brickbats and sticks.
During that time, six soldiers were injured and one of them was in critical condition. “Despite repeated engagements with the Ansar members with patience, the situation escalated when the army personnel fired 27 warning shots into the air as the Ansar members did not retreat", the ISPR release reads.
Later, additional army forces were deployed in the Bangladesh Secretariat area and brought the situation under control by dispersing the Ansars.
Later, seven advisers of the interim government, DG of Ansar, senior officials of law enforcement agencies, and all officials of the secretariat left the area safely with the help of the army men.
The deployed army members took a number of Ansar members, who had intruded into the Secretariat and later sought shelter to save their lives, into their custody and later handed them over to the police.
