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Journos attacked during hartal

Jamaat men cut one's thumb, eight others hurt

Star Repor
Jamaat men severed a journalist's finger, while eight more journalists came under attack in the capital and elsewhere during yesterday's hartal.
With the attacks, the number of newspersons injured in violence before and during the 60-hour hartal rose to 19. Besides, miscreants exploded a number of crude bombs in front of the offices of at least four media outlets in the capital in the last four days.
In Satkhira, Jamaat men cut down the left thumb of Abu Habib, a reporter of local daily Dainik Janmabhumi, who was covering an incident of vandalism at Kaliganj, 33 kilometres off the district headquarters, reports our district correspondent. Witnesses said leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami held a rally at Kaliganj Shaheed Smriti College around 12:30pm. While returning form the rally, the Jamaat activists vandalised and torched the office of Kaliganj Upazila Awami League President Abdul Wahed at Kaiiganj Sadar.
As Habib was taking photographs, the attackers beat him up, and snatched his camera and mobile phone. They then cut down a finger of his left hand, leaving him seriously injured. He was admitted to Satkhira Sadar Hospital.
Orthopaedic surgeon of the hospital Walid Siddique said Habib's almost-severed thumb was dangling from the palm, and he was advised to take treatment at Pangu Hospital in Dhaka.
Habib himself also told The Daily Star that Jamaat men had cut down his thumb.
This correspondent attempted to talk to two top leaders of Jamaat Satkhira unit over the phone, but could not reach them.
In Narayanganj, four journalists sustained splinter injuries as two crude bombs were hurled at their motorbikes allegedly from a BNP procession in Kanchan Khan Bari area of Rupganj.
The injured are Rasel Ahmed of Kaier Kantho, Riaz Hossain of Ajkaler Khabor, GM Shahid of Sakaler Khabor, and Imdadul Haque Dulal of Arthoniti Protidin. All were Rupganj correspondents of the dailies.
Riaz Hossain said the hartal supporters led by Naraynganj district BNP General Secretary Kazi Moniruzzaman brought out a procession at Kanchan around 11:00am.
As the journalists were heading towards Kanchan Bridge two crude bombs were hurled at them, he added. They took treatment at a local hospital.
Mahfuzur Rahman, general secretary of Rupganj upazila BNP unit, claimed that supporters of their rival group led by Mostafizur Rahman Bhuiyan of central Jubo Dal threw the bombs at the journalists.
Mostafizur, however, brushed aside the allegations, and said the supporters of Mahfuzur had carried out the act to get media coverage.
In Thakurgaon, Lutfar Rahman Mithu, district correspondent of satellite TV station NTV, was injured during a clash between BNP-Jamaat men and AL activists at Dholarhat Bazaar in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila. During the clash, BNP-Jamaat activists allegedly set fire to a motorbike ofMaasrangaTV reporter Badrul Islam.
In Rajshahi, Sardar Anisur Rahman, Rajshahi bureau chief of Bangla daily Amar Desh, was pelted with brick chips as the BNP activists were locked in a clash with police at Sonadighi intersection in the city.
Anisur took treatment at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
In the capital, Masudur Rahman, cameraperson of another satellite TV station Channel-i, sustained injuries from rubber bullet as police sprayed stray bullets to disperse a procession of Jubo Dal at city's Nazirabazar in Bangshal.
In another instance, Kafi Kamal, a senior reporter of Bangla daily Manabzamin, was injured as miscreants hurled two crude bombs in front of the BNP headquarters at Nayapaltan in the capital around 6:30pm.
Miscreants also exploded two crude bombs in front of bdnews24.com's office in the capital's Mohakhali around 3:15pm.