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Gunfight in Cox's Bazar

Cop firing kills 3 Jamaat men

Star Report
The opposition's 60-hour hartal ended yesterday, claiming five more lives.
Three deaths, at the last moment of the countrywide shutdown, were reported from Kutubdia in Cox's Bazar while a youth was killed allegedly in police firing in Magura.
An injured Awami League man of Kishoreganj died on Monday night.
The death toll in clashes during the hartal reached 14.
Besides, an unidentified body was recovered from a canal around 3:00pm yesterday, two
hours after a clash between the ruling party and opposition activists in Boalkhali upazila in Chittagong.
Nine journalists, including two in the capital, came under attacks on the last day of the hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance from Sunday morning to press for a non-party polls-time government. Kafi Kamal, senior reporter of Manabzamin, and three policemen were injured as two crude bombs exploded in front of the BNP headquarters at Nayapaltan in the evening, police said.
Law enforcers picked up three from the spot, said Saifiir Rahman, assistant police commissioner of Motijheel zone. He claimed the bombs were thrown from the BNP office around 6:30pm.
The blast occurred in the middle of a crowd of mostly policemen and journalists, Touhid Shanto, a reporter ofATN News toldThe Daily Star.
Identity of the injured cops and detainees could not be known immediately.
Around the same time, Kazi Mainul Islam, officer-in-charge of Hazaribagh Police Station, came under bomb attack by activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir on Dhanmondi Road-19, said Sheikh Maruf Hasan, deputy police commissioner of Ramna.
He was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Rahima Akter, daughter of Abdus Sobhan of Jurain in Dhaka, suffered injuries in the eyes and other parts of her body as a homemade bomb went off while she was playing in Balurmath area around 10:30am.
The pickets blasted two crude bombs, leaving at least three people hurt in Nazira Bazar.
In Cox's Bazar, three Jamaat supporters were killed in over-two-hour clash with police at South Dhurong Bazar, home village of the party’s central leader and lawmaker, Hamidur Rahman Azad, around 6:00pm.
The fight also left seven policemen injured.
The dead were Mohammad Yunus, 20, son of Md Alamgir; Abu Bakkar Siddique, 65, son of late Yusuf Ali, and Ismail Parvez, son of Abu Bakar. They all were residents of the village.
Witnesses and police said armed Jamaat-Shibir activists brought out a procession and fired at police without any provocation.
As police retaliated, 10 Jamaat-Shibir men were wounded, said Jahirul Islam Khan, officer-in-charge of Kutubdia police station.
Ismail died on the spot and the other two on way to Chittagong Medical College Hospital, sources said.
Kutubdia Police Station OC Jahirul Islam Khan confirmed the report of the three deaths.
In protest at the killing, the BNP called a hartal in Cox’s Bazar for tomorrow.
BGB was deployed in the upazila around 9:00pm.
In Magura, BNP activist Maruf, 25, son of Afsar Ali of Nityanandapur, was killed when police opened fire to stop a clash, said Kabir Murad, president of the party's district unit.
Local BNP called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the upazila for today to protest the “killing", reported
our Jessore correspondent.
The clash ensued at Baraiya Bazar around 11:00am as AL men tried to prevent BNP-Jamaat activists from burning shops, said ASI Nuruzzaman of Mohammadpur Police Station.
Police fired five rubber bullets and lobbed several teargas canisters to bring the situation under control, he said.
He could not say how Maruf was killed.
The youth was already dead as he was brought to Magura Sadar Hospital around 1:00pm, said Arun Kami, a physician of the hospital.
Around 11:30pm on Monday, Sher Ali, a wardlevel AL leader in Kishoreganj, succumbed to his injuries at Zahirul Islam Medical College at Bajitpur.
Mobarak Hossain, joint convener of Bajitpur upazila AL, claimed that Sher Ali was hit with bullet in his leg and by brick chips in the chest during a clash between the opposition and ruling party supporters on Monday noon.
In Rajshahi, pickets blasted a crude bomb near the residence of International Crimes Tribunal's Chief Prosecutor Ghulam Arief Tipoo at Upashahar on Monday night, damaging two windowpanes.
Incidents of explosion, vandalism, road blockade, running battles and arson took place also in Madaripur, Satkhira, Lalmonirhat, Bogra, Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Chapainawabganj, Jamalpur, Barisal, Narail, Kurigram, Chandpur, Jessore, Pirojpur, Jhenidah and Dinajpur.
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