Rampant blasts rock city

Rampant blasts of crude bombs rocked the capital city Dhaka and some other parts of the country on Tuesday on the 3rd-day of 72-hour hartal amid countrywide blockade enforced by BNP-led alliance on Tuesday.
Over one hundred cocktails were blasted in the city, including the main entrance of Foreign Ministry and National Press Club, with creating widespread panic among the city dwellers.
Besides, at least 16 vehicles, including ten passenger buses were torched and more than 25 others transports were vandalized in city and of parts of country till the time of filing of this report at 9:45pm yesterday.
In the capital, at least three rickshaw-pullers were injured when miscreants hurled crude bombs in a rickshaw-garage at Nilkhet in the evening. They were identified as Rajon, 45, Amirul, 34, And Badal, 35. They were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
At Sadarghat, a passenger bus of Tanjil Paribahan was torched in front of Victoria Park at night.
Another passenger bus was torched in Jatrabari in the evening. The law enforcers recovered seven cocktails in an abandoned condition in city’s Rampura area in the afternoon.Meanwhile, miscreants blasted several cocktails in city’s Paltan and Kadam Foara, adjacent to High Court, areas in the afternoon. However, police recovered another unexploded cocktail and disposed it in the area by the same time.
On the other hand, the blockaders blasted another cocktail in front of Kasturi restaurant of Paltan in the afternoon.
At Shahbagh, at least six persons, including a school teacher, received injuries in front of BSMMU at night.
A gang of miscreants consecutively blasted six cocktails on Johnson Road in the morning. No one, however, was reportedly injured in the incident.
Miscreants torched two buses in Kadamtali Bus Stand area under Keraniganj upazila of the district at noon.
A gang of miscreants consecutively blasted six cocktails on Johnson Road in the morning. No one, however, was reportedly injured in the incident. Some cocktails were blasted in front of Foreign Ministry in the afternoon.
At least three people were injured when miscreants hurled crude bombs at a passenger bus at Dhaka Uddayan at night. Miscreants blasted cocktails in front of National Press Club in the afternoon.
About 50 people received injuries, of them 15 were burnt, when miscreants hurled petrol bombs and cocktails targeting vehicles in the city and elsewhere of the country.
Meanwhile, Idris Ali, 20, an auto-rickshaw passenger, who received severe burns in an arson attack on February 11, succumbed to his injuries at the burn unit of Chittagong Medical College Hospital yesterday.
Another victim Abul Kalam, 40, a day laborer, who was injured in the petrol bomb attack in Dinajpur, died at Rangpur Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) in the morning.
In Moulovibazar, hartal supporters set ablaze two petrol carrying vehicles in Sadar upazila of the district in the morning.
In Gazipur, a passenger bus was torched at Gazipur Chowrasta intersection in the afternoon.
In Sylhet, at least two vehicles were torched and five others were vandalized in the city in the morning.
In Rangpur, at least four people were injured when miscreants exploded bombs at Shapla area in the evening.
In Bogra, at least five vehicles, including a passenger buse, were torched in the evening.