A
good number of vehicles ply the city streets on Monday defying 48-hour
hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami. The photo is taken from Farmgate area
in the morning.
The
second day of the two-day hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami is
progressing amid some stray incidents across the country on Monday.The incidents of detention, arson and picketing were reported from the capital, Barisal and Jhenidah districts.
In Dhaka, police picked up five people suspecting them as Jamaat-Shibir activists when they brought out a brisk procession at Banasri around 7:30am, said Sirajul Islam, officer-in-charge of Khilgaon Police Station.
Police detained two more pickets for their attempt to vandalise a pick-up van at Shyambazar in Old Dhaka around 7:45am, said Rafiqul Islam, OC of Sutrapur Police Station.
Besides, a passenger was injured as he jumped off a BRTC bus when hartal supporters tried to vandalise the vehicle at Dhalpur around 6:45am.
CHITTAGONG
Jamaat-Shibir men brought out brisk processions and staged demonstration on Momin Road and Hamzarbagh in the city.
The activists of Jamaat-Shibir set a CNG-run auto rickshaw ablaze on Nawab Sirajuddoula Road around 10:00am, said Moshtaq Ahmed, additional deputy commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (South Zone).
Law enforcers rushed in and doused the fire with help of local people.
Meanwhile, road communication of Cox's Bazar and Bandarban with the other parts of the country remained suspended for the last four days as the activists of Jamaat and Shibir blocked the highway by felling trees at Satkania upazila protesting the dead penalty for their Nayeb-e-Ameer Delawar Hossain Sayedee.
Contacted, Md Shariful Islam, upazila nirbahi officer of Satkania, said the administration has freed the highway several times but the Jamaat-Shibir men blocked the highway every time after the law enforcers left the scene.
BARISAL
At least three people were injured when pro-hartal activists clashed with police at the entrance of the city.
The hartal supporters torched two motorcycles of the BCL activists after they joined police during the clash.
Witnesses said the pro-hartal activists brought out a procession from Bagia Madrasa, on the outskirts of the city, around 7:00am and marched towards the city.
Being resistance by police at the entrance, they threw brick chips targeting the law enforcers, prompting the team to lob at least three teargas shells.
Police also used two sound grenades to disperse the activists.
JHENIDAH
At least 1,500 Jamaat-Shibir men damaged railway tracks at Rajapur level crossing in Kotchandpur upazila around 3:00am, halting train movement on Khulna-Ishwardi route for an hour.
On information, members of police, Rapid Action Battalion and Border Guard Bangladesh rushed to the spot and dispersed the activists.
Jamaat called the 48-hour countrywide hartal to protest against the death penalty for Sayedee for his wartime offences.
Since a tribunal awarded death penalty to Sayedee on Thursday, a total of 63 persons were killed across the country until Sunday.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has also declared a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Tuesday protesting what she termed as 'genocide' the deaths in Thursday's fierce clashes with law enforcers.
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