BNP leader Sayedul, 5 others detained in Gazipur

Staff Reporter  :
Gazipur police detained six BNP leaders and activists, including its Executive Committee Member Kazi Sayedul Alam alias Babul, when they were trying to block the Dhaka-Tangail highway on the first day of the 48-hour blockade enforced by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami.

On Wednesday around 6:00am, they were arrested in a raid in the Boardghar area of the Kaliakoir upazila.

The other five arrestees are Dewan Golam Rabbani, President of Chapair Union BNP of Kaliakoir upazila Moslem Uddin, Mokles Mridha Liton, Jalal Uddin, Mohammad Khokon.

Akbar Ali Khan, Officer-in-Charge of Kaliakoir Police Station, said Babul and the others were arrested on the highway around 6:00am.
The OC said that BNP leaders and activists took position on the highway around 4:30am.

When they tried to block the highway, they were arrested, he added.