Violence in dists following mayhem in capital
A man was killed in Sylhet and several others were injured when opposition activists clashed with police in different districts apparently in reaction to violence centring a freedom fighters' reception organised by BNP in the capital yesterday.
Agitators also vandalised 23 vehicles and torched a few others as clashes erupted in Sylhet, Sirajganj, Barisal, Faridpur and Munshiganj districts, report our district correspondents.
Activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami fought pitched battles with police at different places in the city and police detained more than 250 opposition activists. A man was killed and another injured as a hand-made bomb went off at Motijheel in the morning.
SYLHET
An unidentified man was burnt alive as some unruly young men torched a passenger bus at Chandipul suburban South Surma upazila Sunday morning. Ten others were inured in the incident. "Some young men riding about 10 motorcycles stopped the bus in Bodikona area. They threw stones and then set the vehicle afire," said injured Aifar Ali, 35, of Moulvibazar. The protesters blocked the road for about an hour till 12:15pm. At least 15 buses and pickups were also vandalised at Subhanighat, said Rezaul Karim, deputy commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police. Around 11:15am, a private car was set ablaze at Kumarpara point in the city. None was reported injured. Police contingents have been deployed in those areas, the deputy commissioner said. Sources in a law enforcement agency, requesting anonymity, said 20 to 30 activists of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal were involved with the incidents that followed the violence in the capital. MUNSHIGANJ
BNP leaders and activists yesterday formed a four-kilometre-long human chain on Dhaka-Mawa highway in Sirajdikhan upazila of the district, defying police resistance. The BNP men from Sirajdikhan and Srinagar upazilas started gathering beside the highway from around 6:00am to join the freedom fighters' reception organised by the party at Engineers Institute in the capital. Police dispersed them at different points including Hansara School gate, KC intersection, Nimtali and Kuchiyamore. Later, Sheikh Abdullah, the secretary general of Sirajdikhan upazila unit of BNP, reorganised the activists and formed the human chain. BNP men also held a demonstration and protest rally at Mawa intersection in the afternoon protesting police action on their fellow party men. SIRAJGANJ
The supporters of BNP and its front organisations torched a bus 'protesting' police action on the party activists and foiling a reception for freedom fighters in the capital. Law enforcers picked up two BNP activists including a union parishad chairman from the spot on charge of setting fire to the bus. A Dhaka-bound bus of Shyamoli Paribahan from Joypurhat was torched at Jhaul on the approach road on the western side of Bangabandhu Bridge, police said. The demonstrators also vandalised a couple of vehicles in the area. BARISAL
After a rally around 12:30pm protesting police action on their party men in the capital, BNP and its front organisation activists marched different city roads and torched and damaged three auto-rickshaws in Agorpur Road, Fazlul Huq Avenue and Bogura Road areas. FARIDPUR
Jubo Dal and Chhatra Dal activists broke glasses of a truck and a microbus and damaged three auto-rickshaws on Mujib Sarak at around 11:00am. They became excited after hearing through cell phone that bullets were sprayed at a BNP rally in Dhaka, said Benzir Ahmed Tabriz, president of Faridpur district JCD.
An unidentified man was burnt alive as some unruly young men torched a passenger bus at Chandipul suburban South Surma upazila Sunday morning. Ten others were inured in the incident. "Some young men riding about 10 motorcycles stopped the bus in Bodikona area. They threw stones and then set the vehicle afire," said injured Aifar Ali, 35, of Moulvibazar. The protesters blocked the road for about an hour till 12:15pm. At least 15 buses and pickups were also vandalised at Subhanighat, said Rezaul Karim, deputy commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police. Around 11:15am, a private car was set ablaze at Kumarpara point in the city. None was reported injured. Police contingents have been deployed in those areas, the deputy commissioner said. Sources in a law enforcement agency, requesting anonymity, said 20 to 30 activists of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal were involved with the incidents that followed the violence in the capital. MUNSHIGANJ
BNP leaders and activists yesterday formed a four-kilometre-long human chain on Dhaka-Mawa highway in Sirajdikhan upazila of the district, defying police resistance. The BNP men from Sirajdikhan and Srinagar upazilas started gathering beside the highway from around 6:00am to join the freedom fighters' reception organised by the party at Engineers Institute in the capital. Police dispersed them at different points including Hansara School gate, KC intersection, Nimtali and Kuchiyamore. Later, Sheikh Abdullah, the secretary general of Sirajdikhan upazila unit of BNP, reorganised the activists and formed the human chain. BNP men also held a demonstration and protest rally at Mawa intersection in the afternoon protesting police action on their fellow party men. SIRAJGANJ
The supporters of BNP and its front organisations torched a bus 'protesting' police action on the party activists and foiling a reception for freedom fighters in the capital. Law enforcers picked up two BNP activists including a union parishad chairman from the spot on charge of setting fire to the bus. A Dhaka-bound bus of Shyamoli Paribahan from Joypurhat was torched at Jhaul on the approach road on the western side of Bangabandhu Bridge, police said. The demonstrators also vandalised a couple of vehicles in the area. BARISAL
After a rally around 12:30pm protesting police action on their party men in the capital, BNP and its front organisation activists marched different city roads and torched and damaged three auto-rickshaws in Agorpur Road, Fazlul Huq Avenue and Bogura Road areas. FARIDPUR
Jubo Dal and Chhatra Dal activists broke glasses of a truck and a microbus and damaged three auto-rickshaws on Mujib Sarak at around 11:00am. They became excited after hearing through cell phone that bullets were sprayed at a BNP rally in Dhaka, said Benzir Ahmed Tabriz, president of Faridpur district JCD.
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