UNB, Dhaka :
The 108-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its indefinite transport blockade, ended amid arson attacks on vehicles and arrests on Thursday evening, leaving at least 16 people dead during the period.
Of them, 12 people were killed in Comilla, Barisal and Jessore on Tuesday, the third day of the shutdown, while two in Bogra on Thursday and the rest two killed in Laxmipur.
In Bogra, truck driver Polash Hossain, 35, and his helper Imran Hossian, 25, were burned to death in a petrol bomb attack by miscreants on their lorry on Dhaka-Rangpur Highway at Telipukur in Sadar upazila early Thursday.
In Comilla, eight people were killed and 15 others injured in a petrol bomb attack on a bus in Chouddagram upazila on Tuesday. Seven of them died on the spot while another succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday.
On the same day, truck driver Nur Hossain Shikder, 32, and his helper Zafar Rari, 26, were killed as miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at their vehicle at Sundardi in Gaurnadi upazila of Barisal.
Liton, 20, son of Atiar Rahman, and Yusuf, 22, son of Abdul Aziz of Manirampur uapzila,
were killed as a truck ran them over while trying to hurl petrol bombs at the vehicle at Begaritala in Manirampur upazila of Jessore.
Besides, a man and a covered van driver who sustained burn injuries in Laxmipur on Sunday and Monday died on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
Nur-e-Alam, 40, who suffered burn injuries in a petrol bomb attack on a bus by picketers in the city’s Jatrabari area on January 23 died at the DMCH on the day.
At least seven vehicles were torched on the second day of hartal in the capital and other parts of the country.
A government primary school was set alight in Pirojpur on Wednesday during the fourth day of the 108-hour nationwide hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its indefinite transport blockade.
Meanwhile, police constable Shamim, 25, who suffered burn injuries in a petrol bomb attack on a police van by miscreants in the city’s Matsya Bhaban area on January 17, died at Square Hospitals in the capital around 10:00 am on Thursday, said Masudur Rahman, DMP deputy commissioner (Media).
Incidents of violence like petrol bomb attack, vehicle torching, crude bomb blast and the arrest of pickets and 20-party alliance activists were reported from different parts of the country, including the capital, on Thursday, the last day of the hartal and the 31st day of the blockade.
Miscreants set fire to two bogies of an express train at Joydebpur Railway Station in Gazipur in the morning while a truck was torched in Natore.
Police arrested over 200 people from different places of the country, including Dhaka, Sylhet, Sirajganj, Moulvibazar, Sunamganj, Khulna and Chittagong districts.
In Jessore, a hand bomb went off inside the Border Guard Battalion (BGB) camp in Jhumjhumpur area beside the Jessore-Narail Road in Jessore district on Wednesday night.
The 108-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its indefinite transport blockade, ended amid arson attacks on vehicles and arrests on Thursday evening, leaving at least 16 people dead during the period.
Of them, 12 people were killed in Comilla, Barisal and Jessore on Tuesday, the third day of the shutdown, while two in Bogra on Thursday and the rest two killed in Laxmipur.
In Bogra, truck driver Polash Hossain, 35, and his helper Imran Hossian, 25, were burned to death in a petrol bomb attack by miscreants on their lorry on Dhaka-Rangpur Highway at Telipukur in Sadar upazila early Thursday.
In Comilla, eight people were killed and 15 others injured in a petrol bomb attack on a bus in Chouddagram upazila on Tuesday. Seven of them died on the spot while another succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday.
On the same day, truck driver Nur Hossain Shikder, 32, and his helper Zafar Rari, 26, were killed as miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at their vehicle at Sundardi in Gaurnadi upazila of Barisal.
Liton, 20, son of Atiar Rahman, and Yusuf, 22, son of Abdul Aziz of Manirampur uapzila,
were killed as a truck ran them over while trying to hurl petrol bombs at the vehicle at Begaritala in Manirampur upazila of Jessore.
Besides, a man and a covered van driver who sustained burn injuries in Laxmipur on Sunday and Monday died on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
Nur-e-Alam, 40, who suffered burn injuries in a petrol bomb attack on a bus by picketers in the city’s Jatrabari area on January 23 died at the DMCH on the day.
At least seven vehicles were torched on the second day of hartal in the capital and other parts of the country.
A government primary school was set alight in Pirojpur on Wednesday during the fourth day of the 108-hour nationwide hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its indefinite transport blockade.
Meanwhile, police constable Shamim, 25, who suffered burn injuries in a petrol bomb attack on a police van by miscreants in the city’s Matsya Bhaban area on January 17, died at Square Hospitals in the capital around 10:00 am on Thursday, said Masudur Rahman, DMP deputy commissioner (Media).
Incidents of violence like petrol bomb attack, vehicle torching, crude bomb blast and the arrest of pickets and 20-party alliance activists were reported from different parts of the country, including the capital, on Thursday, the last day of the hartal and the 31st day of the blockade.
Miscreants set fire to two bogies of an express train at Joydebpur Railway Station in Gazipur in the morning while a truck was torched in Natore.
Police arrested over 200 people from different places of the country, including Dhaka, Sylhet, Sirajganj, Moulvibazar, Sunamganj, Khulna and Chittagong districts.
In Jessore, a hand bomb went off inside the Border Guard Battalion (BGB) camp in Jhumjhumpur area beside the Jessore-Narail Road in Jessore district on Wednesday night.
