Jamaat Hartal
Pickets clash with police
Pro-hartal activists clashed with police in different districts during yesterday's countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Jamaat, leaving four people including two cops injured in Sirajganj.
In a sudden attack around 10:00am, two crude bombs were hurled at the on-duty policemen at Bakua in Ullapara upazila, said Officer-in-Charge Habibul Islam of Ullapara Police Station.
Sporadic clashes between law enforcers and hartal supporters followed the incident. Two Shibir men were wounded when police fired rubber bullets to break up the mob.
The two cops are Sub-Inspector Nuruzzaman and Constable Abu Sayed of the police station. One of the two Shibir men is Ayub Ali. The name of the other could not be known.
Pro-hartal activists skirmished with police several times in different parts of Bogra.
At around 11:00am, Jamaat-Shibir men threw four crude bombs at police in downtown area. Police hit back with teargas and rubber bullets to disperse them, said sources in Bogra Police Station.
Hartal supporters vandalised buses and detonated bombs in Chittagong and Laxmipur. Several vehicles were set on fire in Gazipur and Jhenidah.
In the capital, unidentified miscreants blasted two homemade bombs in front of Shahbagh Police Station immediately after an anti-hartal procession of the Gonojagoron Mancha had passed.
Two youths riding a motorcycle exploded the bombs and sped off, Shirajul Islam, officer-in-charge of the police station, told The Daily Star.
Several crude bombs were blasted in the capital's Azimpur in the morning.
The number of vehicles on the capital's roads was high for a hartal day. But inter-district bus services were off.
Jamaat-e-Islami called the hartal on Sunday hours after International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentenced “fugitive” Jamaat lawmaker Hamidur Rahman Azad and its acting secretary general Rafiqul Islam Khan to three months' imprisonment on charges of contempt of court.
The court also sentenced Selim Uddin, arrested assistant secretary general of Jamaat Dhaka city unit, to simple imprisonment until the court ended its session for the day, which was 12:35pm Sunday.
The city corporation areas in Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet were outside the purview of the hartal due to the mayoral elections slated for June 15.
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