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Life goes on amid violence

84-hr hartal ends at 6pm today

Star Report
Images of pickets hurling bombs at buses, torching and vandalising vehicles and fighting cops flood newspaper pages and TV screens during hartal days. But the terrifying scenes cannot stop people from going out on the streets just because they hardly can stay back at home any more.
"It's like wading through a morass of violence. We are watching people getting burnt and dying every day. You know you can die at any moment. Yet, you must join your work to earn a square meal for your family," said banker Nasim Reza on way to his Gulshan office yesterday morning.
Literally confined to homes during the recent long shutdowns, people have become desperate to get their daily jobs done. Defying the shutdown, they hit the streets yesterday, the third day of the opposition's 84-hour countrywide hartal.
But violence followed them as usual, leaving at least 39 injured across the country-
Nine passengers sustained burn injuries when pro-hartal pickets torched a running bus at the capital's Rayerbagh around 1:00pm.
Pro-hartal rowdies torched seven vehicles at the capital's Mirpur-12, Rayerbagh, Abdullahpur, Bahadur Shah Park, (Jttara and Dhamrai ofSavar.
The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance enforced the hartal pressing for a non-party polls-time government and protesting arrests of its leaders. The shutdown ends at 6:00pm today.
More vehicles plied the city thoroughfares yesterday than the previous two days. In the evening, there were moderate traffic jams in some areas. Most businesses, offices and roadside shops operated normally.
Some stray incidents of clashes, vandalism, arson and explosions of crude bombs have been reported in different parts of the country, reports our district correspondents.
Around 100 Jamaat-Shibir activists set fire to a pickup van and vandalised five other vehicles at Bibir Bagicha of Jatrabari area around 7:00am, said witnesses.
Ghased by law enforcers, the Jamaat-Shibir men blasted eight crude bombs there.
Locals and police beat up two youths for allegedly blasting crude bombs at Waiz Ghat in Old Dhaka. Shibir activists blasted homemade bombs at Kaltabazar. Crude bombs were also blasted at Rampura, Badda and Mohammadpur.
In Tangail, at least 15 people, including
between Jamaat-Shibir men and cops at the eastern end of the Jamuna bridge in Bhuapur upazila.
Witnesses said some Jamaat-Shibir men blocked the Bhuapur-Jamuna bridge road at Sar Palshia area by burning tyres. The clash ensued as police tried to disperse the Jamaat-Shibir men.
In another incident, at least 10 people were hurt in a clash between the activists of Awami League, BNP, Jamaat-Shibir and police at Gopalpur upazila headquarters.
In Feni, pickets set fire to a school bus and a truck parked inside a workshop at Udrazpur area in Dagonbhuiyan upazila early yesterday.
In Bagerhat, BNP activists vandalised at least 15 buses and 10 shops.
The BNP office at Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat was set alight allegedly by some AL men.
In Satkhira, a clash between two factions of BNP at New Market area left at least three people injured.
Stray incidents of vandalism and cocktail explosions were also reported in Bogra, Chandpur, Chittagong, Gazipur, Sherpur, Pirojpurand Narsingdi.
BLAST HURTS TWO KIDS
Two kids sustained splinter injuries in a crude bomb blast on the premises of Sheikh Amjad Hossain Primary School under Khanjahan Ali Police Station in Khulna city yesterday.
Students of class three, Sheikh Alif Hossain and Nazmul Hossain were receiving treatment at Khulna Medical College Hospital.
The bomb blasted when the two, along with other students, were playing during their tiffin break, said police.
Law enforcers could not ascertain whether the bomb had been lying there or someone had thrown it.