মঙ্গলবার, ৫ ফেব্রুয়ারী, ২০১৩

Hartal continues with arson, vandalism

 
Pro-hartal activists set fire to a bus on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Rayerbagh during hartal hours around 8:20am on Tuesday. Photo: Firoz Ahmed
A countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is progressing amid arson and vandalism in the capital on Tuesday.
The incidents of arson and vandalism were reported from Elephant Road, Dhanmondi, Jurain, Jatrabari, Shyamoli, Rayerbagh, Tejgaon and Shahbagh in the capital.

Pro-hartal activists torched two vehicles, vandalised nine others and blasted at least 12 cocktails in the city. Police so far detained 22 pickets.
Meanwhile, a man was killed in gunfight between police and pro-hartal activists in Chittagong city during hartal hours.
In the capital, unidentified miscreants torched a staff bus of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh at Bata Signal of Elephant Road around 9:10am. The staff bus was burnt completely before the fire fighters rushed to the spot.
Another bus was torched and two others were vandalised on Hashim Road of Rayerbagh around 8:20am, said Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Jatrabari Police Station.
In Tejgaon, pro-hartal activists vandalised an auto-rickshaw and set fire to it on Love Road around 9:00am but locals doused the fire immediately.
Tejgaon Industrial Police said they picked up three persons from the spot in connection with the incident.
Police shot fire and picked up five activists of Shibir, student wing of Jamaat, when some 20 activists brought out a brisk procession at Dhanmondi in the morning and locked into a chase and counter-chase with the law enforcers.
Pickets vandalised a BRTC bus in front of Gono Bhaban around 7:50am, leaving its driver injured. The driver whose identity could not be known immediately was rushed to Suhrawardi Hospital.
At Shahjahanpur, pro-hartal activists brought out a procession and vandalised two buses. They also hurled at least 10 cocktails from a private ambulance.
Police picked a picket in this connection.
A chase and counter took place between pickets and police at Shyamoli around 7:30am.The hartal supporters threw two cocktails targeting a police van and also damaged a BRTC bus and three minibuses during the incident.
Jamaat activists vandalised a police van in front of Mohakhali kitchen market around 7:00am, leaving a police man injured.
A CNG-run auto-rickshaw was also vandalised at Jurain Ghultighar while a covered van at Mir Hazirbagh of Jatrabari in the morning.
Police had to fire several rubber bullets to disperse the pickets at Mir Hazirbagh.
Besides, law enforcers picked up two pro-hartal activists from a procession at Mir Hazirbagh around 7:00am, Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Jatrabari Police Station.
Pickets set fire to several tyres at Mirpur Taltola and hurled brick chips damaging glasses of a number of vehicles around 7:00, said Wazed Ali, officer-in-charge of Kafrul Police Station.
Mirpur, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar and Kafrul police detained nine people in connection with the vandalism, the OC said.
At Shahbagh, Rapid Action Battalion personnel picked up two activists when Shibir men tried to bring out a procession from Birdem Hospital around 12:40pm.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami called the hartal for Tuesday after the tribunal fixed today for delivering its verdict in the case against Jamaat Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Mollah.
It also threatened to enforce non-stop hartals from Wednesday.
In today's verdict, Mollah was sentenced to life term imprisonment for his crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

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