UNB, Dhaka :
The second day of another 72-hour spell of nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance, passed off amid crude bomb blasts on Monday.
The shutdown was enforced to push for its various demands, including a fresh national election under a non-party administration alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade.
In capital, two people, including a policeman, were injured in separate
incidents of crude bomb blast on Dhaka University campus.
The injured were identified as Mohammad Siddique, 30, a police constable, and Abul Kalam, 52, a rickshaw-puller.
Siddique received splinter injuries when a crude bomb was set off near F Rahman Hall around 7:10pm.
Kalam sustained injuries when a group of miscreants hurled two crude bombs near Bangla Academy on the Dhaka University campus at the same time.
In Khulna, miscreants exploded a crude bomb at the local press club in the city around 8:30pm. However, no one was injured in the blast.
Three more crude bombs were exploded in the PTI intersection of the city on Sunday night.
Police also recovered two crude bombs in front of the Mechanical Building of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology at the night.
In Gazipur, police recovered a powerful hand bomb the city on Monday evening.
Officer-in-charge of Joydevpur Police Station Khandaker Rejaul Hasan said locals spotted the bomb on Rajbari road near the Women’s College around 7:30pm and informed them.
Later, a team of the police station rushed in and recovered it.
In Magura, miscreants torched the vehicle of the district fisheries office and blasted 8-10 crude bombs in the district town early hours of Monday, aid police super Sudarshan Kumar Roy.
The BNP alliance made the announcement on Saturday through a press release signed by BNP joint secretary general Barkat Ullah Bulu, also protesting the ‘disappearance’ of BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed.
The shutdown that began at 6:00 am on Sunday will end at 6:00am on Wednesday if it is not extended further as the alliance did earlier six times.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia enforced the blockade for an indefinite period on January 5 after having failed to come out of her Gulshan office to join a planned rally of the 20-party alliance in the city to mark ‘Democracy Killing Day’.
The second day of another 72-hour spell of nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance, passed off amid crude bomb blasts on Monday.
The shutdown was enforced to push for its various demands, including a fresh national election under a non-party administration alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade.
In capital, two people, including a policeman, were injured in separate
incidents of crude bomb blast on Dhaka University campus.
The injured were identified as Mohammad Siddique, 30, a police constable, and Abul Kalam, 52, a rickshaw-puller.
Siddique received splinter injuries when a crude bomb was set off near F Rahman Hall around 7:10pm.
Kalam sustained injuries when a group of miscreants hurled two crude bombs near Bangla Academy on the Dhaka University campus at the same time.
In Khulna, miscreants exploded a crude bomb at the local press club in the city around 8:30pm. However, no one was injured in the blast.
Three more crude bombs were exploded in the PTI intersection of the city on Sunday night.
Police also recovered two crude bombs in front of the Mechanical Building of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology at the night.
In Gazipur, police recovered a powerful hand bomb the city on Monday evening.
Officer-in-charge of Joydevpur Police Station Khandaker Rejaul Hasan said locals spotted the bomb on Rajbari road near the Women’s College around 7:30pm and informed them.
Later, a team of the police station rushed in and recovered it.
In Magura, miscreants torched the vehicle of the district fisheries office and blasted 8-10 crude bombs in the district town early hours of Monday, aid police super Sudarshan Kumar Roy.
The BNP alliance made the announcement on Saturday through a press release signed by BNP joint secretary general Barkat Ullah Bulu, also protesting the ‘disappearance’ of BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed.
The shutdown that began at 6:00 am on Sunday will end at 6:00am on Wednesday if it is not extended further as the alliance did earlier six times.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia enforced the blockade for an indefinite period on January 5 after having failed to come out of her Gulshan office to join a planned rally of the 20-party alliance in the city to mark ‘Democracy Killing Day’.
