Our Barisal Correspondent reports: Miscreants threw acid on Piary Begum,30, mother of four children at Varatkati village under Nalchhity Police Station in Jhalakati on Sunday midnight.

She was rushed to Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (BSBMC) in a critical condition.

Victim and police sources told this correspondent, Rahat, son of Mahmuda Pervin Mimi, a local Union Parishad member beat Sumon, son of Saleha Akon, a Family Planning assistant at the venue of a Boishakhi fair organised to mark the Bangla new year on April 20 as he protested an incident of toll collection.

Police are reported to be hunting Rahat.

On the fateful night Sumon's mother Saleha Begum and cousin Piary Begum were going on road to take revenge of the incident then Rahat and his associates Bacchu, Sajal, Swapan, Manir and Sohel riding on motor cycles ambushed Saleha Begum and threw acid on her. But they missed the target and Piary fell a victim. After the incident, the miscreants fled away.

A case was lodged with Nalchhity Police Station, but nobody was arrested.

Our Satkhira Correspondent reports: A mother and her teenage daughter sustained burn injuries in an acid attack by miscreants at village Samujdipur in Tala upazila on Saturday morning.

The acid attackers also tortured them. Both the injured were admitted to Satkhira hospital in a critical condition.

Quoting local people police said to this correspondent, Jahura Khatun, 30, wife of Nur Ali Sardar and their 14-year-old daughter Ratna of village Samujdipur came under acid attack by Habibur Rahman and his son Jahangir of the same village because they resisted them from ploughing a disputed land on Saturday morning.

A long standing dispute over land is believed to be the cause of the attack.

A case was lodged with Tala thana. None was arrested.