UNB, Dhaka :
The second day of the fresh 72-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade, passed off amid stray incidents of violence on Monday.
The shutdown programme that was enforced at 6am on Sunday will end at 6am on Wednesday unless the alliance extends it further as they did in the in the last three weeks.
In the capital, four suspected saboteurs were killed in two separate incidents in the city’s Mirpur area in the early hours.
Police claimed three of them died due to ‘mass beating’ in Kazipara while another one was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Kalyanpur.
However, sources at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) said bullet injuries were found at different parts of the three youths who were reported to be killed in a mass beating.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three suspected saboteurs-Md Abdul Qadir, 31, Md Nur Islam, 30, and Md Monir Hossain, 29 — and recovered 18 crude bombs from their possession in Kalabagan area in the city Sunday night.
Miscreants set a bus afire in the city’s Karwan Bazar area around 12:52pm.
Police also recovered the bullet-hit bodies of two youths-Polash, 25, and Dulal, 26, hailing from Char Khajura of sadar upazila in Jhenidah-from a field in Depholbaria village in the same upazila in the morning.
Police arrested over 50 people, mostly leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-Shibir, for ‘sabotage plans’ from different places of the country, including capital, and Khulna, Joypurhat, Khagrachhari, Sylhet and Dinajpur districts.
In Laxmipur, pickets set ablaze a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Bashikpur Bazar area of Sadar upazila in the evening.
The 20-party enforced the shutdown to realise their various demands, including a fresh national election under a non-party administration.
It had also enforced hartal for five consecutive days from Sunday in the last three weeks.
BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, on behalf of the alliance, announced the shutdown programme on Friday.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia enforced the indefinite blockade from January 6 as the government did not allow her party and its allies to hold protest rallies in the capital on January 5.
The second day of the fresh 72-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade, passed off amid stray incidents of violence on Monday.
The shutdown programme that was enforced at 6am on Sunday will end at 6am on Wednesday unless the alliance extends it further as they did in the in the last three weeks.
In the capital, four suspected saboteurs were killed in two separate incidents in the city’s Mirpur area in the early hours.
Police claimed three of them died due to ‘mass beating’ in Kazipara while another one was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Kalyanpur.
However, sources at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) said bullet injuries were found at different parts of the three youths who were reported to be killed in a mass beating.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three suspected saboteurs-Md Abdul Qadir, 31, Md Nur Islam, 30, and Md Monir Hossain, 29 — and recovered 18 crude bombs from their possession in Kalabagan area in the city Sunday night.
Miscreants set a bus afire in the city’s Karwan Bazar area around 12:52pm.
Police also recovered the bullet-hit bodies of two youths-Polash, 25, and Dulal, 26, hailing from Char Khajura of sadar upazila in Jhenidah-from a field in Depholbaria village in the same upazila in the morning.
Police arrested over 50 people, mostly leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-Shibir, for ‘sabotage plans’ from different places of the country, including capital, and Khulna, Joypurhat, Khagrachhari, Sylhet and Dinajpur districts.
In Laxmipur, pickets set ablaze a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Bashikpur Bazar area of Sadar upazila in the evening.
The 20-party enforced the shutdown to realise their various demands, including a fresh national election under a non-party administration.
It had also enforced hartal for five consecutive days from Sunday in the last three weeks.
BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, on behalf of the alliance, announced the shutdown programme on Friday.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia enforced the indefinite blockade from January 6 as the government did not allow her party and its allies to hold protest rallies in the capital on January 5.
