DHAKA: At least 110 people were held, three killed and 22 injured during Monday’s dawn-to-dusk hartal in different part of the country including the capital.
Sources said a man was killed when a vehicle forced stopped by hartal supporters in capital’s Badda area in the morning.
The identity of the deceased, aged about 30, could not be known immediately.
Badda police station OC Iqbal Hossain told banglanews, “Shibir men brought out a brisk procession in front of Lion Hospital on Badda Link Road around 9:00am and threw huge brickbats on a moving mini-bus of Bandhu Paribahan.
After vandalism, the bus hit a roadside railing as the driver tried to stop it quickly, leaving two passengers injured critically.
Locals rushed them to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where a passenger succumbed to his injuries. The condition of another person is critical also.
Law enforcers held four people from the spot for quizzing.
Meanwhile, police held 29 people from different points of the capital for exploding cocktails, vandalizing and torching buses.
Besides, public held two Shibir activists and handed them over to police in Waizghat area.
Besides, around 10 people were injured and a person was held when supporters torched a Kaliakoir-bound bus carrying labors.
On the other hand, Police held 43 people in Rajshahi district.
Police held two Jamaat leaders from a rally in Joypurhat and five Jamaat-Shibir men from Comilla district.
However, a Shibir activist named Md Ibrahim was killed and seven others received bullet-wound while picketing in Chauddagram upazila around 10:15am in Comilla.
Two Jamaat activists were held in separate drives apprehending subversive acts during the hartal in Gangni upazila of Meherpur.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel raided Shahjalal Islamia School and College’s residential hostel and held two teachers in Sylhet.
Besides, police held a Shibir leader in front of a clinic in the district.
At least six Juba League men were injured in an attack launched by Shibir men during the hartal in Laxmipur.
Police held 15 people for their suspected involvement with subversive acts in the district.
Sources said police held five Jamaat-Shibir activists while picketing in Sirajganj.
A patient named Abdur Rahman died out of fear when Jamaat-Shibir cadres attack his microbus in Cox’s Bazar.
FEB 18, 2013
