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Arson, bomb blasts ahead of hartal

Staff Corresponded
Overnight arson attacks on public transports and bomb injuries to several people preceded today's countrywide daylong hartal jointly called by main opposition Awami League and other opposition parties demanding resignation of the government.
The hartal called Wednesday night by the AL, the left 11-party alliance, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (ISD-lnu) and National Awami Party (NAP- Muzaffar) is also to protest the August 21 grisly grenade attack on an AL rally and police excesses.
The latest shutdown comes after two other back-to-back hartals that the AL, JSD and 11-party enforced on Tuesday and Wednesday and their countrywide demonstration and 'special prayer' programmes yesterday.
In one of the numerous pre-' han al incidents in the city last night, unidentified miscreants put a bus . on fire at Palasht No injuries were reported.
One Nasiruddin Khan, 18, was injured in a bomb explosion at' Gopibagh, while at least six more
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injured in a bomb explosion at Gopibagh, while at least six more were wounded when some unidentified youths damaged a Gabtoli-bound bus near Dhakeshwari Temple in the evening. One of the injured, Ershadul, 18, a tailor, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Another bus was attacked at Fakirerpool, while a Dhaka University student of Shahidullah Hall was injured as a brick hit on his head at Azimpur.
Three home-made hand bombs were exploded at Shantinagar crossroads by some identified youths, while police recovered two other bombs live.
There were reports of sporadic blasts of crackers at city's Motijheel, Mirpur, Dhanmondi and Uttara areas last evening. Some unidentified criminals set fire to a bus at Dhanmondi at around 7:15pm.
In Trishal upazila of Mymensingh several local AL leaders and workers were injured yesterday afternoon when police batoncharged as they were assembling to take out a pro-hartal procession.
As today's hartal call coincided with the BNP-led four-party alliance's prescheduled programme of holding rallies and processions across the country, the ruling alliance on Thursday deferred its programme to Monday.
Hospitals, medicine shops, ambulances, fire brigade, snack shops and vehicles of journalists and news media will remain out of the purview of the hartal.
AL General Secretary Abdul Jalil yesterday called on all to make today's hartal a success. The AL leader in a
statement appealed to the masses to make the downfall of what he dubbed as the 'Khaleda-Nizami Terrorist Jote Government' inevitable by making the hartal a full success.
Yesterday, AL and its allies and their front organisations took out processions under tight police surveillance in the city, drumming up support for today's shutdown.
They also staged demonstrations at upazila and ward levels protesting the August 21 massacre that left 19 people including central AL leader Ivy Rahman killed and over 200 others maimed. AL President Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the assassination attempt.
AL organised protest rallies and processions in all thana areas in the capital.
Dhaka City AL General Secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya led a procession amid rain, after a brief rally in front of the party's central office on Bangabandhu Avenue.
The 11-party took out a post-rally procession led by Saifuddin Ahmed Manik, Fazle Hossain Badsha and Abdullah Sarkar from Muktangon, protesting, among others, activities of the fundamentalist forces and the attack on the Ahmadiyyas.
JSD (Inu) held a rally in front of its central office and marched the Gulistan area in procession, led by JSD President Hasanul Huq Inu.
Besides, special prayers were offered at mosques, temples and other places of worships across the country yesterday seeking salvation of those killed from the August 21 grenade attack.