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One killed, 85 hurt in anti -polls violence

By Staff Correspondent
One person was killed In bomb explosions at Jhenidah and over 85 people including two policemen were injured In other incidents of antielection violence in some other districts yesterday.
The Election Commission office was torched at Sherpur and bombs were tossed at polls training offices in Chittagong and at Barisal and Sir-ajgang. Anti-election Opposition । activists also stormed polls training offices at Gaibandha. Kishoregani and Raj ban and manhandled polls officials in NarayanganJ.
At Jhenidah. one Abu Bakr (28) was killed and about 20 people were injured as activists of BNP and opposition Awaml League. Jatiya Party and Jamaat-e-Ialami exploded scores of bombs and clashed at Court Chandpur.
Jamaat later claimed that Abu Bakr was its activist.
Witnesses said the clash erupted at around 4 pm when the Opposition activists
tried to foil an election meeting of Shahldul Islam, a BNP candidate from Jheni-dah-3 constituency.
Police, in their bid to quell the clash, lobbed tear gas shells and opened fire.
Local Jamaat leaders claimed that two of its activists.— Abdul Kader (22) and Abdul Alim (20) received bullet Injuries during the police firing. Both were first rushed to Court Chandpur thana health complex In serious condition and later sent to Ibne-Sina Clinic in Dhaka.
Our Staff Correspondent from Chittagong reported that at last 50 people including two policemen were hurt when bombs were hurled at the Muslim Hall where a polls training session was going on. The injured persons were admitted to different hospitals and clinics. Names of the injured policemen could not be known.
Witnesses and police said.
From Page 1 -hundreds of anti-polls activists started hurling bombs from different directions on the Muslim Hall at about 9.30 am and threatened the polling officers attending the meeting to leave the hall.
Following the attack, people vacated the hall and adjoining buildings and shops were closed in the nearby Reazuddin Bazar and Bipani Bitan.
Later. Police, aided by BDR. cordoned off the entire area around the Muslim Hall and dispersed the anti-polls activists by resorting to heavy lathicharge.
Sporadic bomb blasts were heard from some other areas of the city including An-derkilla. Agrabad and Chawk-bazar.
Anti-election activists also damaged a car of Farid Ahmed Chowdhuiy, an independent candidate from Chittagong-5 constituency, in front of the Chittagong press club while he was addressing a-press conference inside the club.
UNB adds from Chittagong: Two traffic constables were injured in a bomb ex Eloslon in front of New Mar-et in the port city in the morning.
The victims — Anwar Hossain and Ruhul Amin — were admitted to the Police Hospital at Dampara.
Several crude’bombs were also hurled at the divisional election office at Jamal Khan Road in the evening. None was reported hurt.
Anti-election activists set ablaze the election campaign office of Farid Ahmed Chowdhury at Biblrhat in the afternoon.
A procession of BNP candidate Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury from Chittagong-8 was foiled by the Opposition activists at Bandartfla tn Doublemooring thana jn the
afternoon.
Meanwhile. Opposition parties called a halt-day hartal at Banskhalt today to foil the planned visit of Communications Minister Oli Ahmed.
SM Zahiruddin. a candidate of 7-party Alliance from Chittagong-8, withdrew from the race today expressing solidarity with the Opposition.
Two assistant presiding officers — Ataur Rahman Chowdhury and Maulana Abdul Hye — were reported kidnapped by some unidentified people yesterday but police said they have no knowledge about it.
Chowdhury, assistant presiding officer of Hasanpur Primary School centre, was picked up from his Kalurghat residence at about 6 pm. family sources said.
Maulana A Hye. assistant presiding officer of City Girls School centre, was abducted from in front of his residents at the Collegiate School premises at about 9 pm.
■ Our Narayanganj correspondent reported that some election officials were manhandled and forced swear in public not to join polls duty.
Witnesses said, some 50 antl-polls activists waylaid the election officials at Chandmari rail crossing at around 12:30 noon, the officials were returning from an election training meeting at Shaistapur TNO office which was also foiled by antt-elec-tion activists by hurling cocktails earlier. None was, however, injured.
The activists pushed and dragged the officials into a pond and then forced them to hold their ears and to promise that they would not do polls duty. They were released later.
Our Staff Correspondent from Barisal reported that a shopkeeper Mosharraf Hos-
sain (35), injured in an incident of anti-polls violence Monday evening, died at the Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital later at nighL
Mosharraf was injured in a series of bomb blasts in an election-projection meeting of Brig (retd) Anwar Hossain Chowdhury, a BNP nominee from Bakerganj-6 constituency. About 20 people were injured in the clash.
Yesterday, crackers were hurled at Barisal Auditorium where an election training was being held. The DC and other officials were present. Two JP workers were arrested in this connection.
An independent candidate from Bhola-3 constituency was reportedly stripped in front of the Deputy Commissioner's residence at Bhola Saturday night. The candidate was going to meet the DC
Our Correspondent re-Grted from Comilla that at ist 10 people were hurt in a clash between the Opposition and BNP activists at Dawlatganj Bazar in Laksam thana yesterday afternoon.
The clash began when BNP activists attacked a local JP leader.
The anti-election activists also ransacked the thana BNP and election offices and damaged five vehicles.
In Chouddagram. antielection activists harassed a Khelafat Andolan candidate from Comilla-12 constituency and set fire to the thana BNP office and damaged eight vehicles.
Our Correspondent from Sirajganj reported that five persons were injured and two shops and a motor bike of a policemen were damaged in three separate incidents in the district.
Antl-polls activists also foiled a polls training meet-ing of officials at Kazipur RDA High School premises at 10
am by hurling seven cocktails. Motor bike of a police SI has damaged there.
In another incident at Khashkawlia. AL activists foiled a ■ scheduled election rally of BNP nominee from Sirajgani-6 constituency. Ansar Alf yesterday evening. Five persons were injured in the incident. After foiling the BNP rally, the AL held a rally there.
Our Galbandha correspondent reported that anti-election activists hurled bomb at the house of BNP candidate from GaIbandha-2 constituency Saiful Alam yesterday. None was injured.
A training meeting of presiding and polling officials at Galbandha sadar thana was foiled in the morning by Opposition activists as they forced the participants to leave the venue.
Our Sherpur correspondent adds: Anti-polls activists set ablaze the Sherpur Sadar Election Commission office located at the TNO office at 1.1:30 pm Sunday night.
At about 11:30 am. the AL and JP brought out a procession in Nalitabari and foiled a meeting of election officials at the TNO office. Two buses, two trucks and two motor bikes were damaged by the activists.
Our Khulna correspondent reported that at about 11 am yesterday six hand granads were blasted in thr com pound of Collectorate Building where the office of the Deputy Commissioner is lo cated.
In Rajbari. a training session for election officers was foiled tn an attack by antl-polls activists fn the town at about 10 am leaving six pro ^IrhMsSloreganj. anti elec tion activists stormed into the Hosseinpur TNO office and ransacked Its furniture during a training session of the election officials .