BNP-enforced haral for straight 3rd day underway
Dhaka, Apr 24 (UNB) - A countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by main opposition BNP for the third day on the trot demanding the return of its disappeared organising secretary M Ilias Ali and his driver Ansar Ali is underway Monday.
The fresh shutdown is also aimed at registering protest against the killing of the party’s two activists in ‘police firing’ at Biswanath in Sylhet and repression and attack on opposition activists across the country during the hartal hours on Monday.
“The hartal is also meant for pushing the government for the release of the detained leaders and workers of the opposition,” BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told a press conference on Monday.
Earlier, the main opposition enforced the shutdown on Sunday and Monday to press home their demand for the return of the missing BNP leader.
Two people were shot dead and over 300 were injured in clashes between pro-hartal activists and police during the second nationwide daylong hartal enforced by the main opposition BNP on Monday.
The second dawn-to-dusk hartal ended at 6 pm disrupting the normal life amid stray incidents of clashes and the arrest of opposition activists in the capital and elsewhere in the country.
Most shops and all educational institutions remained closed and traffic was disrupted during the hartal hours. But the government offices remained opened as usual.
According to reports reaching the UNB desk from across the country, over 300 people were injured and some 280 picketers arrested, including 41 in the capital, as opposition activists attempted to take to the streets to enforce the hartal, the 11th such shutdown by BNP since the Awami League-led grand alliance assumed power in January 2009.
However, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at the press briefing on the countrywide daylong shutdown claimed that two BNP men were killed and 795 leaders and workers of BNP and its front and associate organisations were injured during the hartal hours.
Besides, 371 opposition activists were detained across the country, he added.
In Sylhet, two people were shot dead and over 100 injured in a fierce clash between pro-hartal activists and police in Biswanath upazila headquarters on Monday afternoon.
Almost all modes of vehicles, except rickshaws and a few CNG-run auto-rickshaws, stayed off the streets fearing vandalism.
Police arrested eight leaders and activists BNP, including its vice-chairman Selima Rahman, from the city’s Gulshan area this (Monday) morning when they tried to bring out a procession in support of the shutdown.
BNP lawmakers, including MK Anwar, Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie and Syeda Asifa Ashrafi Papia brought out a procession from the Sangsad Bhaban Complex in the morning.
Police and Bangladesh Chhatra League activists obstructed Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal men from bringing out a procession in the city’s Mohakhali area.
Meanwhile, two cocktails were exploded in front BNP’s central office while another one was exploded at Fakirerpool area during the hartal hours. Another cocktail went off at Mirpur Section-1. However, no one was injured in the incidents.
Unidentified criminals set fire to a bus in the city's Chankharpool area in the morning.
Earlier at 2:30 am, plainclothes police arrested two youths - Obaid and Ershad - along with seven cocktails from Elephant Road.
Pro-hartal supporters also vandalised a BRTC bus in the city’s Motijheel area.
Like the previous day, police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel kept the BNP central office at Nayapaltan cordoned off since the morning. No BNP leader and activist were allowed to enter the office.
In Chittagong, police arrested 21 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations from Wasa Crossing, Pakulia, Muradpur and Kazirdewri of the city while picketing in support of the hartal.
In Shariatpur, around 50 people, including seven cops, were injured as BCL men attacked a meeting of BNP and its front and associate organisations in the town during hartal hours.
In Rajshahi, at least 25 people, including district unit BNP president Mizanur Rahman Minu, were injured in clashes with police in separate places.
Besides, 11 BNP men were injured in a clash with police when police obstructed another BNP procession at Saheb Bazar at 11 am. Five BNP activists were injured at police lobbed teargas shells during a clash with hartal supporters near Loknath High School in the town.
Police arrested 30 people from separate places during the hartal.
In Barisal, police arrested at least 71 pro-hartal activists in the six districts of the district as the opposition activists took to the streets in support of the hartal.
In Savar, police arrested eight pro-hartal activists as they tried to bring out a procession in the morning.
In Gazipur, police arrested 28 BNP leaders and activists from separate places during the hartal.
Sources said 14 were held from Joydevpur, nine from Tongi and five from Kapasia upazila.
In Sirajganj, 15 activists of BNP and its front organisations were injured in a clash with police during the hartal hours.
In Khagrachhari, at least 15 people were injured in clashes between hartal supporters and police and ruling party men in separate places.
Besides, police arrested six people while picketing in Kharachari sadar. They arrested 14 people during a drive at night.
In Jhenidah, at least 50 people were injured in clashes among police, ruling party men and BNP activists during the hartal hours in the town.
The fresh shutdown is also aimed at registering protest against the killing of the party’s two activists in ‘police firing’ at Biswanath in Sylhet and repression and attack on opposition activists across the country during the hartal hours on Monday.
“The hartal is also meant for pushing the government for the release of the detained leaders and workers of the opposition,” BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told a press conference on Monday.
Earlier, the main opposition enforced the shutdown on Sunday and Monday to press home their demand for the return of the missing BNP leader.
Two people were shot dead and over 300 were injured in clashes between pro-hartal activists and police during the second nationwide daylong hartal enforced by the main opposition BNP on Monday.
The second dawn-to-dusk hartal ended at 6 pm disrupting the normal life amid stray incidents of clashes and the arrest of opposition activists in the capital and elsewhere in the country.
Most shops and all educational institutions remained closed and traffic was disrupted during the hartal hours. But the government offices remained opened as usual.
According to reports reaching the UNB desk from across the country, over 300 people were injured and some 280 picketers arrested, including 41 in the capital, as opposition activists attempted to take to the streets to enforce the hartal, the 11th such shutdown by BNP since the Awami League-led grand alliance assumed power in January 2009.
However, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at the press briefing on the countrywide daylong shutdown claimed that two BNP men were killed and 795 leaders and workers of BNP and its front and associate organisations were injured during the hartal hours.
Besides, 371 opposition activists were detained across the country, he added.
In Sylhet, two people were shot dead and over 100 injured in a fierce clash between pro-hartal activists and police in Biswanath upazila headquarters on Monday afternoon.
Almost all modes of vehicles, except rickshaws and a few CNG-run auto-rickshaws, stayed off the streets fearing vandalism.
Police arrested eight leaders and activists BNP, including its vice-chairman Selima Rahman, from the city’s Gulshan area this (Monday) morning when they tried to bring out a procession in support of the shutdown.
BNP lawmakers, including MK Anwar, Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie and Syeda Asifa Ashrafi Papia brought out a procession from the Sangsad Bhaban Complex in the morning.
Police and Bangladesh Chhatra League activists obstructed Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal men from bringing out a procession in the city’s Mohakhali area.
Meanwhile, two cocktails were exploded in front BNP’s central office while another one was exploded at Fakirerpool area during the hartal hours. Another cocktail went off at Mirpur Section-1. However, no one was injured in the incidents.
Unidentified criminals set fire to a bus in the city's Chankharpool area in the morning.
Earlier at 2:30 am, plainclothes police arrested two youths - Obaid and Ershad - along with seven cocktails from Elephant Road.
Pro-hartal supporters also vandalised a BRTC bus in the city’s Motijheel area.
Like the previous day, police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel kept the BNP central office at Nayapaltan cordoned off since the morning. No BNP leader and activist were allowed to enter the office.
In Chittagong, police arrested 21 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations from Wasa Crossing, Pakulia, Muradpur and Kazirdewri of the city while picketing in support of the hartal.
In Shariatpur, around 50 people, including seven cops, were injured as BCL men attacked a meeting of BNP and its front and associate organisations in the town during hartal hours.
In Rajshahi, at least 25 people, including district unit BNP president Mizanur Rahman Minu, were injured in clashes with police in separate places.
Besides, 11 BNP men were injured in a clash with police when police obstructed another BNP procession at Saheb Bazar at 11 am. Five BNP activists were injured at police lobbed teargas shells during a clash with hartal supporters near Loknath High School in the town.
Police arrested 30 people from separate places during the hartal.
In Barisal, police arrested at least 71 pro-hartal activists in the six districts of the district as the opposition activists took to the streets in support of the hartal.
In Savar, police arrested eight pro-hartal activists as they tried to bring out a procession in the morning.
In Gazipur, police arrested 28 BNP leaders and activists from separate places during the hartal.
Sources said 14 were held from Joydevpur, nine from Tongi and five from Kapasia upazila.
In Sirajganj, 15 activists of BNP and its front organisations were injured in a clash with police during the hartal hours.
In Khagrachhari, at least 15 people were injured in clashes between hartal supporters and police and ruling party men in separate places.
Besides, police arrested six people while picketing in Kharachari sadar. They arrested 14 people during a drive at night.
In Jhenidah, at least 50 people were injured in clashes among police, ruling party men and BNP activists during the hartal hours in the town.
BCL district unit president Khairul Islam, BNP Sadar upazila unit president Kamal Azad Pannu, district Jubo Dal unit president Rawshan bin Kadar Miron, ex-UP chairman and BNP leader Mizanur Rahman, NTV cameraman Shajib and Bangladesh Protidin district correspondent Ruhul Amin were among the injured.
In Laxmipur, at least 15 people were injured in a clash between Chhatra Dal and BCL men at Raipur upazila in the district.
In Narayanganj, at least 10 BNP men were injured as police charged baton on them when they brought out a procession in support of the hartal at Siddhirganj.
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