1st day of 48 hrs blockade: 13 vehicles torched across country
Staff Reporter :
The 48-hour blockade of the main opposition BNP and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami started on Sunday morning.
Centering the programme, 12 arson attack incidents on buses across the country from 7pm on Saturday to 6:30am on Sunday were reported.
Unidentified operatives set fire to at least seven vehicles, including police van and BRTC bus at Mirpur, Bansree, BanglaMotor, Uttara in the capital on Sunday and two in Naryanagnj and Gazipur while three others in Sirajganj, Barishal’s Charfesson upazila and Rangpur respectively on the first day of the two-day blockade programme called by BNP and Jamaat.
Three members of the police were injured when miscreants hurled two cocktails on a police patrol car in Uttara’s House Building area in the morning.
The police, however, claimed that they caught red-handed Gazipur City Chhatra Dal’s former vice-president Kazi Mohammad Hasan in connection with the incident.
The incident took place around 6am, said Jotyrmoy Saha, Senior Assistant Police Commissioner (Uttara Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Uttara Paschim Police Station’s Sub Inspector Mahbub Ali is among the injured.
He said our three members were injured slightly as the miscreants hurled cocktails at the police vehicle.
A BRTC double-decker bus was set on fire by unidentified operatives in Dhaka’s Mirpur area in the afternoon.
The incident took place at 3:42pm in front of Govt. Bangla College in Mirpur, said Rozina Akter, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence Headquarters.
The fire was doused by the locals before fire service units reached the spot. No casualties were reported, added.
Khagrachhari: Unidentified miscreants set a truck on fire at Alutila in Khagrachhari district town on Sunday morning amid the countrywide 48-hour blockade enforced by BNP, Jamaat and like-minded opposition parties.
Witnesses said the pickets blocked Matiranga Bazar road by burning tyres and placing logs on Jaliapara-Ramgarh road in the morning.
They also hurled brick chips targeting some vehicles at the Zero Mile area in the city during the blockade.
Chittagong: A group of miscreants set fire to a bus parked opposite Patenga City Corporation Mohila College in the Patenga area of Chittagong on Sunday around 5am.
