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Rail tracks cut off

30 hurt as train derailed in Lalmonirhat on last day of hartal; 2 killed as truck crashes after 'chased by pickets'

Star Report
On the last day of the 84-hour hartal, pickets removed rail line sleeper clips causing a train to derail and 30 passengers to get hurt at Kaliganj of Lalmonirhat early yesterday.
The injured were taken to a local health complex and the police arrested two opposition activists in this connection.
The sabotage and the consequent accident snapped rail communication between Lalmonirhat and Burimari, including the Burimari Land Port, as of 12:00am today when this report was filed.
The authorities of West Zone of Bangladesh Railway declared red alert apprehending further incidents of sabotage, reports BSS.
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Meanwhile, two people were killed when a vegetable-laden truck plunged into a roadside ditch and flipped over at Chonka Battola of Sherpur on Bogra-Dhaka highway around 1:30am.
The deceased were: owner of the truck Ziaur Rahman, 32, and vegetable trader Ashadul Islam, 35.
Nazrul Islam, 32, and Abul Fazal, 30, also sustained injuries. Identities of two other occupants of the vehicle could not be known.
The accident allegedly happened after pickets hurled brick chunks at it causing the driver to lose control over the vehide.
Police officers at the Sherpur Police Station disagree on how it happened and The Daily Star could not independently verify the reported attack on the vehicle.
The last day of BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance's hartal was marked by stray incidents of dashes, running battles, explosions of crude bombs and detentions of people at parts of the country, reported our district correspondents.
In Dhaka, pickets set a bus alight near Kamalapur Railway Station as the hartal came toanendin the evening. None was hurt.
Pro-hartal activists also exploded homemade bombs at places.
A woman sustained splinter injuries at Chawkbazar area when she accidently picked up a bomb.
Safura Khatun, 55, went to the back alley of herhomeon Kazi Dewan Lane to bring back the TV remote her grandchild had thrown out the window. She found a packet lying around and when she picked it up, it exploded.
Mirpur police detained four activists of pro-Jamaat student body Islami Chhatra Shibir and seized three petrol bombs and seven crude bombs from a mess at Kalyanpuryesterday.
They also picked up 11 alleged Shibir men from nearby areas.
Pickets hurled five crude bombs at a police van in Pallabi. The law enforcers arrested two peoplein this connection.
A Junior School Certificate examinee and a district level Jubo League leader were stabbed allegedly by pickets at Bogra and Lalmonirhat.
Hartal supporters beat up and stabbed JSC examinee Shakib Sardar, 14, atMondalpara of Dupchanchia in Bogra.
Witness said pickets obstructed and beat up Naim Hossain, a friend of Shakib, when he was
in the upazila health complex area on a bicycle. When Shakib went to help, the pickets stabbed him in the back.
Joint General Secretary Zia Islam, 45, of Lalmonirhat Jubo League sustained severe stab injuries to his stomach and back on Hospital Road in Lalmonirhattown.
Jubo League claimed that hartal pickets' stabbed him when he was goinghome.
In Rangpur, at least 40 people were injured as opposition activists clashed with police in the town and in Pirganj upazila.
A clash between activists of ruling Awami League and opposition BNP also left more than 20 people, including two policemen, injured in Faridpur upazila of Pabna.
At least 10 people were also injured in a running battle between hartal supporters and police in Narayanganj.
Police and hartal supporters also clashed in Narsingdi injuring 10 people.
There were reports of detentions from Gazipur, Jamalpur, Chandpur, Bogra, Mymensingh and Madaripur
Police picked up BNP lawmakers Shammi Akhter, Rasheda Begum Hira and Nilufar Chowdhury Moni in front of the party's headquarters at Nayapaltan in the