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Curfew in Bhola: Clash, police firing in city: Hundreds injured across country

4 killed during hartal hours

By Staff Correspondent
Al least four persona were killed and several hundred Injured in police firing and incidents of arson during the dawn-to-dusk hartal across the country Tuesday.
An indefinite curfew was Imposed tn Bhola from 4 pm Tuesday.
Nazrul Islam, a driver working for a private company, was killed in Dhaka when he was hit by a bullet in his left eye near Baitul Mukarram mosque.
Three children died In Kutubdia when their houses were set ablaze.
Kutubdia thana sources said over telephone that the three children were reportedly
killed at All Akbardel Union, 3 km off the headquarters, when a group of people set 51 houses of fishermen on fire leaving some 450 people homeless.
The authorities also had to impose Section 144 In Khulna and in Sylhet and Ohior to check the volatile situations.
Police used batons, lobbed tear gas shells and fired rubber bullets to break up clashes between supporters of the Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Samannyc Committee and the Jamaat-Shfbir-Jubo Command activists and also to disperse mobs that attacked Hindu temples.
Samannyc (coordinating)
Committee called the 12 hour hartal demanding implemen tatlon of the four-point agree me nt signed between the Government and the Opposition that provides for Oolam Azam's trial. The committee also tagged the Babrl Masjid issue to yesterday's hartal.
Jamaat-e-Islami and some other right wing political parties also called the hartal protesting demolition of the 16-century mosque in the Indian town of Ayodhya. The hartal coincided with that called by the Nirmul Committee.
The hartal was complete in Dhaka as well as in other parts of the country.
In Dhaka, supporters of the Nirmul Committee and the Jamaat activists fought pitched battle throughout the day at Purana Paitan crossing, Farmgate. Magbazar. Jatra Bari and Gulistan.
Police moved in between the clashing groups and used tear gas shells to keep them from getting at each other.
The rival groups used mostly stones during the clashes but several cocktails were also blasted intermittently at the time.
Witnesses said that the Jamaat supporters who outnumbered the Committee supporters near the Purana Paitan, were carrying hundreds of sticks.
Pistol shots were also heard from among the Jamaat-Shiblr-i Jubo Command supporters who controlled the Purana Paitan to Dainlk Bangla cross-
Nazrul, hit at around 11 am by a rubber bullet tn his eye was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where he died after a few hours.
Near Farmgate, witnesses said, a group of Shlbir sup-porters in the guise of Jubo' Command workers attacked and chased a Nirmul Committee procession at around 8-30 am. The Committee supporters reorganised and attacked the Jubo Command activists and occupied the spot several hours later.
Both groups used brickbats for nearly three hours.
The Dhakesiwarf Mandlr (temple) areas were the major trouble spots during the hartal where a mob launched a three-pronged attack'to damage the Hindu shrine.
Police exhausted their tear gas shells and had to get fresh supplies to check several thousand people trying to reach the temple site. The areas were strewn with bricks.
Three temples in Thatarl-bazar, Narinda and Shanir Akra were damaged by agitators.
More than 100 people were injured in Dhaka, 35 of them were rushed to the DMCH from different city points. Eleven of the injured were admitted at the DMCH. A number of policemen and photo Journalists were also injured.
Police detained more than a score of protesters but arrested only three, thana sources said.
Witnesses said that Tuesday's hartal was more effective than many previous ones in the year.
All sorts of vehicles, excluding a negligible number of rickshaws, stayed off the roads in Dhaka. The inter-city buses remained narked at four
city terminals. Steamer services from Sadarghat and train services from Kamalapur were also disrupted because of hartal. Educational Institutions were closed and attendances in offices thin.
The Nirmul Committee and the Jamaat-e-lslaml held sepa rate rallies In the afternoon and announced their next courses of action.
The Nirmul Committee leaders at a rally in front of the OPO urged the people to make the human chain programme on Thursday a success while the Jamaat decided to organise a procession Thursday to hand over a memorandum to the Indian High Commission.
Jamaat will also observe Friday as "Babrl Masjid Day".
Fire Department sources sq1d that at least seven temples 'and houses were damaged by demonstrators in Bhola, one temple in Jhenidah, one in Kushtia and nine temples were also set on fire in Sylhet district.
An indefinite curfew was Imposed in Bhola from 4 pm Tuesday after several hundred people attacked a number of temples and shops in the town.
The authorities asked the people to stay in homes until further order.
Our Staff Correspondent from Chittagong adds: Normal life came to a halt in the port city and its surrounding areas yesterday following a dawn to dusk hartal here as elsewhere in the country. The hartal was held peacefully barring some stray incidents of violence. Police and witnesses said two rival groups of supporters of Nirmul Committee and Jamaat-e-Islam fought a pitched battle for two hours beginning 11 am at Anderkilla. At least 15 persons were In-, Jurcd, two of them seriously. The critically Injured were rushed to the local clinics. Police and BDR intervened to disperse the battling supporters.
Police fired blank shots and resorted to lathlchargc when both battling groups freely used arms and exchanged brickbats. Some unruly activists of a rival group also stoned at the offices and shops damaging their window panes and doors around Anderkilla.
Besides, during the hartal period all kinds of vehicles including rickshaws stayed off the roads and highways while
closed Offices, both public and private could not function. The mills and factories could not operate. The cargo handling at Chittagong Port was hampered due to hartal, official sources said.
Our Staff Correspondent from Khulna adds: Dawn-to-dusk hartal was observed without any untoward Incident. However. Section 144 was imposed in Digholia area. All roadside shops, bazars, business organisations, banks, insurance and private organlsa tions remained closed. Govt offices and autonomous bodies were open with thin attendance.
All sorts of vehicles Including rickshaws and long route coaches went off the road. Launch services tn all the 28
routes to and from Khulna city remained suspended. But mills and factories tn Daulatpur, Khalishpur, Atra industrial zone were in normal operation. Loading and unloading at Mongla Port was not hampered.
Processions both by Nirmul Committee and Jamaat-Shibir were broughtout tn the city in the morning and evening.
Additional police force were deployed at all vulnerable points of the city.
The man who killed In police firing Monday night was identified as Delwar I lussain — a jute worker.
Our ComlUa Correspondent adds: Agitated people set the Mohatma Gandhi established Hindu hostel, Abhoi Ashram' on fire in the small hours of yesterday.
They also damaged one Hindu Lcmplc in the town and three more in other areas.
A total of about 25 shops were also ransacked in the town on the second consecutive day of communal violence.
Meanwhile. Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee ComlUa unit held a meeting at the Pubali Square at the end of hartal.
Our Gazipur Correspondent adds: One person was Injured when pickets clashed with shopkeepers in Tongi during hartal hours. All transports stayed off the roads and most factories remained Inoperative.
Our Correspondent from Narayanganj adds: The hartal was observed peacefully in the district barring some stray incidents.
A local train from Dhaka was damaged by pickets near the No 2 railgate in the morn-
ing All traffic stayed off the roads.
A temple was damaged at Rupganj while two persons were arrested when they attempted to set fire to the Laxminarayan Akhra. Police identified the arrested per sons as Ranjit (20) and Mintu Chandra Paodar (22).
Our Correspondent from Natore adds: No major Incidents were reported other than an attack on a temple at Vatopara village under Sadar thana today All statues of the temple were set on fire in the incident.
A dawn-to-dusk hartal was observed. Heavy contingents of police and BDR were jieployed In different areas.
Our Galband ha Correspondent adds: Dawn-to-
dusk hartal was observed here in the district peacefully.
UNB reports from Feni: At least eight Shlbir activists were injured in a clash between the supporters of Chhatra Shlbir and Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee in Fenl during the hartal period Tuesday.
Meanwhile, a group of angry mob attacked and damaged 13 monasteries at Shahadevpur village in Sadar thana yesterday.
BSS from Rajshahi adds: Dawn-to-dusk hartal was observed in the northern divisional headquarters city at the call of Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee and Jamaat-e-Islami.
BNP, Awami League and JSD brought out separate peace processions in the city, condemning the Ayodhya incident and urging people to maintain communal peace. The BNP procession was led by Rajshahi City Mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu.
UNB adds: Section 144 was enforced on Ghior thana for an Indefinite period from 6 pm Tuesday to ward off violence sparked by demolition of a mosque in India, officials said.
Scores of temples and homes and shops owned by Hindus were ransacked as angry Muslims went on a rampage Io protest the destruction of the Babrl Mosque in India by militant Hindu extremists.
Violence occurred in Ghior, Shibalaya, Doulalpur and Sadar thanas, police sources said.
At least 28 people were injured in clashes between mobs and local people who obstructed attacks on temples.