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Gunbattle with police in Fatikchhari during hartal

13 alleged killers held with rocket launchers

From Our Correspondent
CHITTAGONG. May 10 Police fought a fierce gunbattle with the alleged killers of three Awami League (AL) a< ttvlsts near Naztrhat College tn Fatikchhari today while Chittagong was in the grip of a dawn to-dusk hartal called by the AL to protest the killings.
Police arrested 13 of the accused killers and recovered five rocket launchers, a pair of binoculars and some luggage from their possession.
According to police, the ac cused were fleeing the city.
UNB quoting says : The ar rests followed exchanges of fire between police and Shlbtr NDP activists for one and a half hour near Nazirhat bazar and Naztrhat college between Halhazarl and Fatikchhari upaztlas The gunbattle began at about 6 am
The arrested were moving in a microbus during the dawn to-dusk hartal, the po
lice control room said without giving their Identity About 1 50 people engaged in the gunbat tie managed to flee to Nandakini mountain.
Superintendent of Police SM Sabir Alt said that the sit nation in the district was un der control and police were searching for the culprits In and around the Mandaklnt mountain
Our Staff Correspondent picks up During the hartal today the supporters of the AL reportedly attacked the rest dence of a Jamaal leader at Panchalalsh and beat up two Shlbtr workers severely
The also set a motorcycle afire at Chandgaon In the city. Several crackers were also blasted at various placed in the city during the hartal.
Normal life came to a halt In the Port City and Its surrounding areas during the hartal.
The hartal was called to protest the killing of three AL activists allegedly by armed members of the pro Jamaal Chhatra Shlbtr and the NDP on Friday in Fatikchhari upazlia 30 miles from the city
Additional police forces were deployed In s bld to keep the situation under control.
During the hartal hundreds of vehicles were stranded on the Dhaka Chittagong Highway at Sttakunda as barricades were pul up by the supporters of the Al. and the BCL
Private and public offices could not function In this busl ncss city and shops and mar kets stayed closed during the hartal.
Banks could not operate and the carrying of cargo to and from Chittagong Port re malned suspended due to the non-plying of trucks. Mills and factories at Nasirabad and Sttakunda industrial belts sui
fered production losses, sources said
Besides, all vehicles includ Ing rickshaws stayed off the road*
Supporters of the AL and the BCL brought out a prores sion Ihat paraded the dty mads calling to arrest the killers
Meanwhile. UNB says, four Jamaal Shlbtr leaders were stabbed allegedly by Awamt League activists Abu Ta her Khan, also the leader of Bangladesh Hallway Employ res league (BREU. was stabbed tn the ligerpass area and three others- Ekram Hossain, Ekramul Huq and Mujtbur Rahman— In Lalkhan bazar area. UNB adds
Taher was admitted to Railway Hospital and Ekram and Ekramul Huq were rushed to Lalkhan bazar hospital
Agitated youths set fire to the BREL office.
Awaml League held a meet Ing In front of Doeth Building during the hartal hours with Chittagong Uttar Awaml League Vice-President Abul Quashem Master presiding.
It was addressed, among others, by party city unit Secretary ABM Mohluddin Chowdhury, district unit (South) Secretary Mosk-huddin Ahmed and ATM Pearul Islam
(Editorial on Page 4)