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Dhaka turns into sea of mourners

Staff Correspondent
Dhaka City turned into a sea of mourners yesterday as thousands of grieved people paraded through different streets to mourn the dead from Saturday's grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) rally in its heart
The activists of the AL, 11 left parties and the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) staged three mourning processions to condole the deaths and protest the grenade attacks that left 19 people killed and over 200 injured.
The main opposition AL and its front organisations brought out the procession from its headquarters on Bangabandhu Avenue, scene of Saturday's rally bombing, while the 11-party alliance and JSD from Muktangaon and Zero Point, defying the hot and humid weather in the evening.
Men wearing black badges and many women in white saris with a
black ribbon formed the long processions. Some of them carried blackflags and placards symbolising griefamid tight security.
Law-enforcers kept a watch from building tops on a route that took the processions to the Central Shaheed Minar. Most shops and businesses lining the roads were closed.
Traffic movement ground to a halt, triggering a jam that continued long after the processions ended.
Nineteen people, including AL Women's Affairs Secretary Ivy Rahman, were killed and over 200 injured when a scries of near-simultaneous grenade explosions ripped through the rally.
Frontline AL leaders Abdul Jalil, Tofail Ahmed, Mohiuddin Khan Aiamgir, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya and Saber Hossain Chowdhury carried a huge festoon that read Tributes to the deceased grenade victims '.
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A mourner carried a big black flag well ahead of the two-line AL procession, one of the biggest in recent history.
AL General Secretary Jalil called upon fellow activists to transform the grief into a force to topple the Khaleda Zia administration.
Some mourners held a huge black and white portrait of Ivy, who died from her wounds at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) after struggling three days for life in the wake of the attack.
Jalil came to the AL headquarters on foot from the Zero Point and addressed the processionists briefly, condemning the attack what he termed 'a black chapter in country's history'.
He accused the government of its role in the grenade attack. "Nobody can carry out such an attack without the collaboration of the government and without its knowledge," he alleged.
He paid tributes to Ivy, depicting her a symbol of protest against repression.
"We have lost many, but don't want to lose anymore. Let's come forward to transform the grief into a force to topple the government," Jalil said in an emotion-charged voice.
He called upon his party workers to make Saturday's agitation programme a success to add a spark to the oust-government movement.
"Insanallh, we will form a government under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina to get rid of the misrule of the alliance government," he added.
The procession ended at the Shaheed Minar after crossing Bijoy Nagar, Kakrail and the Doyel crossing.
11-PARTY ALLIANCE
The mourning procession of the 11-party alliance started from Muktangan and one of the banners it carried read 'Resist the misrule of the alliance government'.
The Procession, led by Monzurul Ahsan Khan, president of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), Rashed Khan Menon, president and Bimol Biswas, general secretary of the Workers Party of Bangladesh and Ruhin Hossain Prince of CPB, ended at Paltan after parading through Zero Point.
At the end of the mourning procession, Hazi Abdus Samad Azad, announced the protest demonstration programme to be held today at the Muktangon.
JATIYA SAMAJTANTRIK DAL
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) also brought out a mourning procession from the Zero Point.
Before the mourning procession, a brief rally was organised where the party leaders accused the government of failure to ensure people's safety.
"People cannot expect peace under the Khaleda-Nizami-Amini coalition," a speaker said.
Hasanul Haq Inu, president of the JSD, urged all anti-government forces to protest the bomb attacks untidily.
The mourning procession, led by Inu, Shirin Akhter and Syed Jafar Sazzad, started at the Zero Point and ended at the same spot after parading through Bijoy Nagar.