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Violence marks partial hartal

2 killed, 100 hurt

By Staff Correspondent
Two people were killed — one in Dhaka and another in Faridpur— and at least 100 others injured Saturday during a countrywide six-hour hartal.
One Nazrul Islam, a garments factory worker, was killed when he was chased by the hartal supporters and crushed by a BRTC bus near Banani Chairmanbari.
Another man, reportedly a Jamaal supporter, was hacked to death at Madhukhalf upazila in Faridpur district.
"Bharatiya Dalal Protlrodh Committee and Jubo Command « called the countrywide demanding a ban on " Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nlrmul Committee" arid the trial of 24 people's court sponsors.
Jamaat-e-lslami Bangladesh, its student front Chhatra Shlbir, Freedom Party and Progotishil Ganatantrik Shakti
and some other rightist parties supported Saturday's hartal, enforced from 6 am.
Saturday's hartal was ignored in many districts but partially observed in Chittagong. Rajshahi. Khulna, Slra-jganj, Rajbari, Cox’s Bazar, Madarlpur, Narayanganj and Jessore according to reports.
In the capital, bomb blasts and sporadic clashes marked the six-hour hartal Saturday leaving at least 40 people injured.
Police tear-gassed and baton charged clashing groups— supporters and opponents on the hartal— in the Purana Pal-tan area, the main troublespot during the hartal, where brickbatting continued for about two hours.
Of the injured four were hospitalised. The Injured in-
eluded two press photogra phers
Police arrested 38 people from different areas.
The main gates of most of the government and non-gov-ernment offices, banks, business establishments, schools, and colleges were closed dur Ing hartal hours but work continued with limited num ber of staff.
Major transport services were paralysed during the pe rtod
The brickbatting started In the Pallan areas al around 9-30 am when some hartal supporters pelted stones at a group of Nirmul Committee supporters standing In front of the Com mlttee office al Topkhana.
They also hurled several cocktails injuring several peo pie including a number of Committee supporters. A Committee leader said that four Committee supporters were sent to hospital from the spot.
The Nirmul Committee suppotters, numbering fewer than the hartal supporters, reacted turning the area into a battlefield with both sides using mainly bricks as weapons.
Crackers were blasted at a regular Intervals during the clash.
Police looked on during the Incident which continued for about two hours with the hartal supporters taking up positions al Purana Paltan Square and the Committee supporters in front of their office.
At a stage when the situation turned worse and both the groups were about to start a hand-to-hand battle, a senior police official asked hts men to go into action.
Police then lobbed tear-gas shells and used batons indiscriminately to clear up the area. Later police entered different lanes al Topkhana where Nirmul Committee supporters took shelter and beat them up.
Chief co-ordinator of Nirmul Committee Col (retd) Kazi Nuruzzaman and Workers Party General Secretary Rashcd Khan Menon were assaulted by police there, witnesses said.
Police also fired several tear-gas shells inside the lane that fell in the premises of some hours in the area. Women and children in those houses were affected by the
Two photographers of Ajkcr Kagaj and a BSD (Khalequc) leader were htt by stay bricks and police battons.
Later the dispersed hartal supporters reorganised in front of Baitul Mokarram gate and picketed until 12-30 pm.
Clashes also occurred in Mlrpur and Kawranbazar areas.
Some rickshaws plied helping the office goers to reach there destinations. Tempo and autorickshaw services were almost normal in Farmgatc-Mahakhali route. Long distant buses stayed parked at the three Inter-district bus terminals while train services were as usual although one or two came under attack at the Magbazar crossing by the hartal supporters.
The organisers claimed that the hartal was a success.
Eyewitnesses said that the hartal supporters started picketing at different points, known to be the strongholds of Jamaat and Shlbtr. and blasted series of crackers to terrorise the areas.
The pickets damaged several rickshaws around the capital.
The hartal supporters detained a number of newspaper vehicles and made journalists show their Identity cards. They allegedly beat some of the drivers as they (drivers) had no identity cards.
Dhaka Medical College Hospital correspondent says that seven people were admitted to the hospital with injuries received during the hartal hours in the capital.
The Injured were identified as Abdus Salam(30), Abul Hossain (30). Mostafa Faruk, Momtnul Hasan(30), Dulal (19). Arif (22) and Rani (17).
Our Faridpur Correspondent reports: Unidentified people hacked to death the organising secretary of Jamaat -e-lslam! Md Sanwar Hossain (52) at Madhukhall Upazila Saturday.
Witnesses said a teacher of Ashapur Senior Madrasa at the upazila, Hossain was attacked by a group of armed people at about 9-30 Saturday morning in front of the Madhukhall Sugar Mills. He died on the spot.
Five other people were in-fured In the incident with oqe
seriously.
Later, the body of the Jamaat leader was brought to Faridpur Sadar Hospital for au topsy .
Sanwar Hossain was burled at his home village at Mad hukhali.
A case was lodged with Madhukhall police.
The Superintendent of Po lice in Faridpur district visited the spot
Jamaat-e Islam! claimed that Sanwar Hossain was killed by the activists of Nirmul Committee.
Jamaat chief Abbas All Khan in a statement condemned the killing and demanded arrest of those involved tn It
Another report from the district says that the hartal was Xted at Faridpur town and r parts of the district as the people defied the call.
Except the inter-district buses, rickshaws and local buses and other modes of vehicles plied normally In the district.
Our Staff Correspondent in Chittagong says that sporadlc crackcr blasts marked the bar tai in the port city.
Operations In the Chit tagong Port were normal with loading and off-loading of goods. But delivery could not take place due to lack of transports.
No vehicles plied on the city streets while shops at new Market. Chawk Bazar, Agrabad, Dewan Bazar and Kadamtali ar eas In the city remained shut tered.
All educational institutions in the city remained closed while attendance tn most of the offices was thin.
None was injured or ar rested during the hartal hours, according to the police.
Our Staff Correspondent from Khulna writes: the halfday hartal was observed peacefully in the' port city.
No untoward Incident took place during the hartal hours.
All vehicles remained off the streets of Khulna and the shops shut down.
However, mills and factories In the Khalishpur industrial belt operated normally.
Mongla Port activities were normal but delivery of goods from port to other parts could not take place.
In Rajshahi. hartal was held amid sporadic clashes between the organisers and the people, which left at least 15 injured.
All shops, business and commercial houses and educational institutions were closed while transport remained off the streets. Trains did not operate.
According to witnesses, a clash between the activists of Jubo Command and people at Kazla area tn the city at about 9-30 am left 10 injured.
Police picked up 32 pick elers from different parts of the city during the' hartal hours.
Jubo Command leaders held a post hartal rally near the Sa-heb Bazar area of the city In which speakers demanded trial of the organisers of the March 26 public trial in Dhaka.
Our Rajbari Correspondent adds: Four people were injured in a clash between the hartal organisers and the activists of the Nirmul Committee at Pangsha upazila of the district during the hartal hours, police said.
Ferry movement between the Artcha-Dhulatdta ghats remained suspended during the hartal hours.
Our Bogra Correspondent says that hartal was partially observed In the city amid blasts of crackers and crude bombs.
Five people were Injured in the explosions.
Police arrested 25 pickets Including the local Bnaratla Dalal Prollrodh Commiltcc President Mirza Selim Reza from different parts of the town during the hartal hours.
Witnesses said that the hartal organisers created panic at Sath Matha colony. Gohall Road and Khandar areas of the town.
All shops, business and commercial establishments except at Sath Matha and Its adjoining areas remained open during the hartal hours.
Attendance in the government and private offices was satisfactory while transactions In the banks were normal.
Activists of the Nirmul Committee held a rally in the town where speakers demanded punishment to the arrested president of the Dalal Protirodh Committee.
Earlier, they also brought out a procession and paraded the streets of the town.
In Jhcnldah, the half-day hartal was observed partially throughout the district.