Dhaka: Slum dwellers clashed with police during an eviction drive at their slum in the city’s Kalyanpur area on Thursday morning, reports local news agency.

A team of Public Works Department went to Natun Bazar in Kalyanpur of the capital along with police and magistrate Nure Alam to conduct an eviction drive there at about 11:00am.

When the team reached there, the slum dwellers obstructed them by throwing brickbats, leading to a clash.

However, police brought the situation under control at about 11:45 am by charging baton and firing rubber bullets.

Later, another spell of clash started at about 12:30 pm over the same issue.

Advocate Shahjahan Kibria, counsel of the authorities of a mosque situated on the area, said a metropolitan session court on Wednesday issued a stay order asking the authorities not to conduct eviction drive for next two months. The drive was conducted ignoring the order, he said.