UNB, Dhaka :
The fifth day of the 120-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade, passed off with stray incidents of violence on Thursday, leaving a truck helper dead.
The shutdown programme that was enforced at 6am on Sunday to push for the alliance’s various demands, including a fresh national election under a non-party administration, will end at 6am on Friday.
Meanwhile, the 20-party alliance on Thursday threatened to enforce yet another spell of hartal from Sunday if their demands remain unheeded. In a statement, BNP joint secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed issued the threat.
Incidents of violence like torching public buses with petrol bombs and arrest of 20-party leaders and activists were reported from different parts of the country, including the capital.
At least 22 people suffered burn injuries as miscreants carried out arson attacks on a bus in Kishoreganj and three trucks in Chapainawabganj, Lalmonirhat and Manikganj districts from Wednesday midnight to Thursday evening.
Of the injured, a trucker, who suffered burn injuries in a petrol bomb attack on his vehicle in Gomastapur upazila of Chapainawabganj on Wednesday night, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital yesterday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Mohammad Selim, 25, son of Alauddin of Jalmasmari village in Shibganj upazila of the district.
According to reports reaching the UNB news desk, police arrested 86 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat for ‘sabotage plan’ from different places of country, including capital Dhaka, Khulna, Chittagong, Satkhira, Patuakhali and Sylhet, during their separate drives in the last 24 hours as of 4pm on Thursday.
Besides, police foiled a procession of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal on the Dhaka University campus and arrested three JCD activists in the morning.
On Friday, the 20-party alliance announced the fresh 72-hour spell of nationwide hartal from 6am on Sunday (Mar 1) alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade.
The alliance on Tuesday extended it by 48 hours till 6.00am Friday.
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 fifth day of the 120-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade, passed off with stray incidents of violence on Thursday, leaving a truck helper dead.
The shutdown programme that was enforced at 6am on Sunday to push for the alliance’s various demands, including a fresh national election under a non-party administration, will end at 6am on Friday.
Meanwhile, the 20-party alliance on Thursday threatened to enforce yet another spell of hartal from Sunday if their demands remain unheeded. In a statement, BNP joint secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed issued the threat.
Incidents of violence like torching public buses with petrol bombs and arrest of 20-party leaders and activists were reported from different parts of the country, including the capital.
At least 22 people suffered burn injuries as miscreants carried out arson attacks on a bus in Kishoreganj and three trucks in Chapainawabganj, Lalmonirhat and Manikganj districts from Wednesday midnight to Thursday evening.
Of the injured, a trucker, who suffered burn injuries in a petrol bomb attack on his vehicle in Gomastapur upazila of Chapainawabganj on Wednesday night, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital yesterday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Mohammad Selim, 25, son of Alauddin of Jalmasmari village in Shibganj upazila of the district.
According to reports reaching the UNB news desk, police arrested 86 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat for ‘sabotage plan’ from different places of country, including capital Dhaka, Khulna, Chittagong, Satkhira, Patuakhali and Sylhet, during their separate drives in the last 24 hours as of 4pm on Thursday.
Besides, police foiled a procession of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal on the Dhaka University campus and arrested three JCD activists in the morning.
On Friday, the 20-party alliance announced the fresh 72-hour spell of nationwide hartal from 6am on Sunday (Mar 1) alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade.
The alliance on Tuesday extended it by 48 hours till 6.00am Friday.
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’.
