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More shutdown, more suffering

2 killed in violence on first day of 60-hour hartal

Star Report
Two lives were lost yesterday as the opposition alliance enforced its first day of countrywide 60-hour hartal, inviting more troubles for the economy as well as for the low-income families.
The BNP-led 18-party opposition combine enforced the shutdown, the second long hartal in a span of seven days, pressing for a non-party care
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Of the dead, an activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) was killed in Lalmonirhat, while a passenger of a CNG-run autorickshaw succumbed to his injuries at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
Mostafizur Rahman Mukul, 35, a purchase officer of Biswas Group, died from burn injuries at the DMCH around 10:30am yesterday, 12 hours after miscreants in Savar had hurled a petrol bomb at the three-wheeler he was in, igniting fire in the vehicle.
A teenage boy was fighting for life at the bum unit of the hospital yesterday as his whole body was burned when some pro-hartal pickets torched a covered van parked on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Joydebpur intersection around 9:45am.
The victim, Monir Hossain, 14, was in the vehicle, his father Ramjan Ali, driver of the van, told The Daily Star at the DMCH.
Violence across the country claimed 14 lives during the last week's (October 27-29) 60-hour hartal.
Like the previous hartals, activists of BNP and Jamaat-Shibir clashed with ruling Awami League men and law enforcers in different parts of the country and blasted crude bombs, leavingscores injured.
In the capital, pro-hartal pickets exploded cocktails at different areas, including the judges' court premises in Old Dhaka.
Miscreants torched at least 10 vehicles in the city between 12:00 midnight and 7:45pm yesterday.
Unidentified goons blasted a cocktail inside the boundary wall of the Gulshan residence of prime minister's public administration affairs
adviser HT Imam at 7:30pm, said Gulshan police.
Two live crude bombs were recovered from the fifth floor of the District Judge's Court building, while pickets blasted two more near the mosque of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court and Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court.
City residents came out on the streets to do their routine work. Many businesses and offices were open and a large number of vehicles plied the city streets.
In the evening, authorities deployed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members in the capital to maintain law and order.
In Lalmonirhat, Chhatra Dal activist Nasir Uddin, 24, was killed as police opened fire to stop a clash between the BNP-Jamaat and AL men near the Dharla bridge under Patgram upazila at 10:00am.
Police said the clash ensued when the ruling party
men obstructed a procession by BNP-Jamaat activists at the Dharla bridge area. Both the groups threw at least 20 crude bombs at each other, leaving at least 20 people injured.
Law enforces initially fired tear gas shells and rubber bullets to bring the situation under control. But as the Jamaat men hurled cocktailsat police, copsopened fire in retaliation, leaving the JCD men dead and four more opposition men injured by bullets.
Some BNP men stormed a Hindu village at Satpatki Majhipara in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila around 12:30pm. They vandalised and looted houses, leaving at least 15 people injured.
In Bogra, assistant government pleader (AGP) Salek Sarkar, 50, was injured in a cocktail blast at the District Judge's Court premises in the town around 12:00noon.
A resident of Shatmatha area in the town, Salek was struck by bomb splinters, said Bogra
police He received treatment at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital.
In Satkhira, pickets broke the windowpanes of the chamber building of senior judge Shimul Biswas by throwing brickbats.
In Patuakhali, at least 30 people were injured in a clash between AL and BNP men at Baherchar area under Rangabali upazila around 12:00noon.
In Chapainawabganj, at least eight cops, including the OC of Sadar Model Police Station, were injured in a clash between police and Jamaat-Shibir men at the town's Boro Indira intersection in the afternoon.
Stray incidents of clashes, vandalism and explosion of crude bombs were also reported in Narayanganj, Rangpur, Natore, Jhenidah, Pirojpur, Madaripur, Gazipur, Chandpur, Bagerhat, Kurigram and Feni.