Pirojpur: At least 1300 unidentified people have been sued over the killing of five people in police-BGB firing during an alleged attempt to snatch result sheets by local people after the union council election in Dhanishapa union of Mathbaria upazila in Pirojpur on Tuesday.

Sub-inspector of Mathbaria Police Station Sanwar Hossain filed the case with the police at about 12:30am on Thursday.

Earlier on Tuesday after the end of balloting of Dhanishapa union council election, a group of around 700 people, equipped with local weapons, intercepted the presiding officer in the area at about 8:30pm when, he under the escort of police and Border Guard Bangladesh members was returning to the UNO office from Dhanishapa Degree College centre with election result sheets.

The mob tried to swoop on the presiding officer and snatch the result sheets.

As the presiding officer tried to prevent them, they also attacked him.

Later, police and BGB members, upon instruction from executive magistrate Kazi Ziaul Baset, fired 29 bullets, leaving three people killed on the spot and several others injured.

Later, two of the injured succumbed to their wounds at Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital.