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Anti-election violence

Dist EC, BNP offices burnt,. 37 including magistrate hurt

By Staff Correspondent
A district election commission office was burnt and at least 37 people including a magistrate were injured in anti-election violence at different places of the country yesterday. ,
Most of the voter ID cards, voter lists and other documents were burnt when some masked armed men disarmed the night guard, poured petrol and torched the district Election Commission office at Chuadanga town in the early hours of yesterday.
In Knulna. hand bombs were blasted in front of the Election Commission office and. the residences. of five candidates.
In Chittagong, at least 20 people including a magistrate and a police man were injured in a series of bomb blasts in different parts of the
port city. Bombs were also hurled at the residence of a leading BNP candidate in the city.
The district BNP office was set on fire in My-mensingh while clashes and injuries were also reported from Siralganj and Jhenidah.
Qur Staff Correspondent from Chittagong reported that sporadic bomb blasts rocked the port city while about 20 persons including a magistrate and a policeman were injured yesterday, according to witnesses and po lice sources.
The injured persons were rushed to hospitals and clinics.
The residence of former , MP and BNP candidate from Chittagong-8 constituency Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury came under bomb
From Page 1 attack yesterday afternoon. None was Injured, police and family sources said.
When contacted over telephone. Amir Khasru Chowdhury told The Dally Star that some Opposition ac-tivists hurled cocktails at his residence and then fled away.
Bombs were also exploded at the Chittagong Court Building. in front of Chittagong circuit house and Chittagong General Hospital, ana at Bhuddist Temple Road. An-darkilla, Station road. Chawkbazar. CGS colony and Agrabad commercial area.
One magistrate was injured at the Chittagong Court Building when a splinter of a bomb tut him while he was in his chamber at 3 pm. Another bomb went off in front of the conference room of the Deputy Commissioner (DC).
One policeman was hurt when a bomb was exploded at the Buddhist Temple Road at around^4^m. police and wit
Our Chuadanga correspondent said that three armed unidentified persons, wearing masks disarmed the night guard, poured petrol In the office and set it on fire, said night guard Siddique All.
He said 80 per cent of the document in the office including ID cards, voters lists and other valuable documents were burnt.
Our correspondent from Khulna reports, three hand bombs were blasted in front of the Election Commission
office at Sher-e-Bangla road at about 1:30 am yesterday.
In other incidents, the residences of BNP candidates Dr Abdul Huq and All Ahmed, Muslim League candidate Moslehuddin Ahmed and independent candidate Abul Hossain Hawlader came under bomb attacks yesterday night.
UNB adds from My-mensingh: The office of district BNP was set ablaze by anti-election activists yesterday morning.
Police said the BNP office at the Kalish anker Guba road, now being used as the election campaign office of BNP candidate A K M Fazlul Huq, was set on fire at around 4 am.
Fifteen people were injured in election related clashes and an NDP candidate was assaulted by opposition actlyists tn Slrajganj district yesterday.
Witnesses said, seven people were injured as sup-
porters of the BNP and Awaml League clashed at Kazipur thana headquarters yesterday morning.
Our Sirajganj correspondent reported that election campaigns in three places in the district were foiled due to Opposition resistance yesterday.
A dais for the public meeting of BNP nominee Abdul Mazid Minu at Khekuria Bazar in Kazipara thana was damaged.
Public meeting of BNP candidate T M A Mannan in Sirajganf-3 constituency could not be held yesterday at Ghurka in RaiganJ thana as the Opposition activists went on a rampage there.
Our correspondent from Cox's Bazar reports: A 24-hour hartal called by opposi tion political parties to resist the election tour of Communications Minister OH Ahmed was observed in Ukhia and Teknaf yesterday.
Opposition activists hurled brickbats on the motorcade of the Communications Mln ister while he was returning from Teknaf this afternoon
In Jhenldah. two people were injured when anti-election campaigners hurled a bomb at the meeting of a ruling party candidate at Berubari village in Sadar thana yesterday, reports UNB
Besides, unknown people threw a powerful bomb at the sadar thana parishad audito rium during a training sea sion of the presiding officers None was reported injured in the incident.