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100 injured as AL men clash with cops in dists

Staff Correspondent
Over 100 people were injured as activists of the Awami League (AL) fought pitched battles with police and damaged vehicles during varying hours of hartals in a number of districts yesterday protesting attack on a party rally in Dhaka.
The hartals closed schools, businesses, banks and other commercial activities and virtually crippled life in Chittagong, Rajshahi, Barisal, Pabna, Kushtia, Brahmanbaria, Bhola, Jamalpur, Hobiganj, Patuakhali, Gopalganj, Satkhira, Manikganj and other districts.
Opposition activists held gayebana janaza across Bangladesh seeking divine blessing for 18 people killed in a series of grenade attacks in front of the party headquarters on Bangabandhu Avenue on Saturday.
Roads of most cities and towns were deserted of vehicles as people stayed indoors.
Police arrested about 300 leaders and activists of the main opposition and its allies during the hartals called
by local units of the party.
In Rangpur, at least 40 people including 30 AL leaders and activists were injured as police used baton on their procession in Pirganj.
Agitated opposition activists damaged at least 50 buses and trucks in the wake of police action.
Thousands of residents of Pirganj put up a blockade on the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway between 9:00am and 12:00pm protesting the attack.
In Chittagong, police arrested 225 people including local leaders of the AL, ward commissioners and activists of Jubo league and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) suspecting their roles in the rampage in the port city on Saturday evening.
Of the arrested, 15 were held during the hartal while others in a special drive on Saturday midnight.
Police arrested AL leader and sitting Ward Commissioner Tarek Solaiman
Selim, former ward commissioner Ahmadur Rahman Siddiqui, leader of Patenga unit of AL Sekander Azam and Jubo League leader of Pahartoli Delwar Hossain, police and party sources said.
Cargo handling at Chittagong port remained closed.
In Sylhet, police picked up 15 agitators during the hartal from different city areas while chase and counter chase between the police and AL activists took place at Mirabazar, Tilagarh, Chouhatta, Surma Market, Madan Mohan College, Taltola and Ambarkhana areas.
Pickets ransacked about 10 trucks, minibuses and autorickshaws at Tolagarh, Mirabazar, Kazitola and Surma Market areas.
In Gopalganj, at least 50 people were injured, five of them seriously when police charged baton during the hartal.
Police swung into action after agitating people ransacked a branch of state-owned Janata Bank and set fire to a bus-counter of Comfort Line
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at Tungipara in Gopalganj district.
In Khulna, Netrakona and Mymensingh, the dawn-to-dusk hartal passed off peacefully amid deployment of huge contingents of police and paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles.
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