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Bomb blasts rock capital

Star Report
Targets include houses of SC judge, law minister, environment minister and CEC, offices of police commissioner, and Ekattor TV; countrywide violence leaves at least one dead, 116 hurt and 71 arrested**
Scores of crude bombs exploded in at least 50 places including the houses of a Supreme Court judge, law minister, environment minister and chief election commissioner, and the offices of a police high-up, a police station, and Ekattor TV in the capital yesterday.
An Ekattor TV journalist and a videographer were injured in one blast, while an unexploded cocktail was located near the office building of Desh TV and BhorerKagoj.
On the eve of hartal, opposition activists torched and vandalised dozens of vehicles and clashed with police across Dhaka city and the country, which left at least one person killed, 116 wounded, and 71 arrested, according to witnesses and police.
A garment worker, Nasima Begum, 20, is fighting for life in Dhaka Medical College Hospital with 43 percent burns to her body after a bus full of passengers was torched in Dhaka Uddyan Lohar Gate area around
7:20pm. At least five others suffered burns.
Meanwhile, yesterday was the second consecutive day that miscreants were targeting high profile government officials, politicians and police with bombs.
On Friday, two cocktails went off at the Zigatola residence of minister without portfolio Suranjit Sengupta followed by three successive blasts in front of the Dhanmondi residence of Dhaka district BNP President Abdul Mannan.
The Kakrail office of Ashrafuzzaman, deputy commissioner (Motijheel zone) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, was hit by the bombs first around 9:30am yesterday.
"A cocktail exploded on the wall of my office," said Ashrafuzzaman. Several persons were arrested in this connection.
The attacks came a day after anonymous callers issued threats to kill several police officials and their family members.
The Dhanmondi house of Environment and Forest Minister Hasan Mahmud was attacked next where three blasts occurred around 10:00am. A suspected Islami Chhatra Shibir activist was arrested with a cocktail near the minister's house.
The third explosion occurred around 10:30am at the Kakrail residence of Justice SK Sinha, an SC judge dealing with appeals of the war crimes convicts. The justice recently received several death threats by phone, said an SC official.
The fourth bomb attack targeted Paltan Police Station around 6:10pm. A man was arrested on the spot. An unidentified man hurled a bomb near the office of Ekattor TV around 6:40pm, critically injuring Senior Newsroom Editor Zakaria Biplob in the legs. Videographer Alamgir sustained minor injuries, said the television station sources.
The sixth blast occurred in front of Law Minister Shafique Ahmed residence on Indira Road around 7:10pm. The miscreants in two black cars blast two bombs, he said.
The seventh attack aimed Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed' house in Baridhara around 7:15pm where one cocktail was hurled.
Around 2:00pm, unknown miscreants blasted several cocktails in Gulshan-1 following which some fleeing attackers were arrested near the Indian High Commission.
Cocktail blasts were also reported in Farmgate, Moghbazar, English Road, Bongshal, Tantibazar, Kakrail, Paltan, Fakirapool and Shyamoli.
VIOLNEC IN CAPITAL
At least 23 vehicles including buses, auto-rickshaws and trucks were torched while several others were vandalised across the capital yesterday, said fire offices.
Torching of vehicles was reported in Paltan, Dakkhinkhan, Begunbaria, Abdullahpur, Segunbagicha, Gazipur, Basabo, and Mirpur-10.
In front of Mirpur Indoor Stadium and near Banani Sainik Club, several vehicles including, one of the tax office, were burnt, while a bus in Beribadh and another in Abdullahpur were set alight with passengers on board. None was hurt, though.
An auto-rickshaw driver was injured in Basabo, where his vehicle was torched.
In addition, Jamaat-e-Islami and Shibir activists clashed with police for over an hour in Bijoynagar leading to at least three arrests after torching a vehicle, said Paltan police.
Around 7:00pm, clashes erupted between hartal supporters and police, as the protesters threw cocktails in Bongshal where police opened fire to control the situation.
DMP sources said at least 31 people with 11 cocktails were arrested in the capital. COUNTRYWIDE MAYHEM The opposition alliance activists went on rampage countrywide yesterday clashing with police and vandalising and burning vehicles. The violence left at least one person dead, 43 injured and 21 arrests, reported our district correspondents.
In Rajshahi city, Rashedul Islam, 30, treasurer of Motihar thana unit of Shibir, was killed, and over 30 people including seven policemen and a ward councillor were hurt as BNP, Jamaat, and Shibir activists clashed with police and hurled around 15 cocktails. Police fired 100 bullets.
In Chittagong, the Mirsarai upazila administration enforced Section 144 from 12:00pm till 7:00pm yesterday to prevent clashes between the Awami League and the BNP.
In Natore, at least 10 people were injured in a clash between police and 18-party activists in the Harishpur bypass. Police fired teargas and rubber bullets.
In Lalmonirhat, two shops and houses of AL men were allegedly vandalised and looted by Jamaat-Shibir activists, which left three AL activists critically injured.
BNP and Shibir factions also brought out processions in Sherpur, Bogra, Jhenidah and Madaripur.
In Sudharam, Noakhali, police arrested 17 Shibir activists and two Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal men for allegedly setting fire to a local AL office, which left at least 10 shops burnt down and 50 injured, including 15 policemen.
In Aminpur, Pabna, a clash between pro-hartal and anti-hartal activists led to torching of 10 shops last evening. In Chandpur, Faridganj upazila BNP enforced a hartal yesterday protesting the deaths of three Jubo Dal men during clashes with police Friday.