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Blockade Till 5am Tomorrow

Railway the main target

Star Report
At least seven more people were killed and scores injured in fresh violence that rocked several districts across the country yesterday the second day of the opposition's nationwide rail, roads and waterways blockade.
Initially it was a 48-hour blockade in protest at the announcement of the polls schedule. But the BNP-led 18-party alliance yesterday extended it by 23 hours in two
phases - first by 12 hours in the afternoon and then by 11 hours late at night - protesting the "killing of its activists and government oppression".
The blockade will now end at 5:00am tomorrow, but BNP sources said they may enforce a nonstop blockade from Saturday or Sunday to force the government to meet its demand fora nonparty polls-timegovernment.
Like on the previous day the railways continued to be a main target of the blockaders yesterday as the BNP-Jamaat men ripped up fishplates and set fire to tracks, snapping rail communications on different routes for hours.FROM PAGE 1
Train service on Lalmonirhat-Dhaka and other routes was suspended for eight hours after BNP men removed two fishplates at Mohendranagar in Lalmonirhat around 8:00am.
Shibir men uprooted a rail track at Uri-Madhabpur village in Joypurhat early yesterday, halting rail communications with Joypurhat and other districts for several hours till 10:30am. Many intercity trains got stranded at Joypurhat, Parbatipur andSantahar.
A locomotive and five compartments of a passenger train named "Agnibina Express” derailed at Bankharia in Sripur of Gazipur around 10:00pm on Tuesday, after blockaders removed fishplates there.
Such attacks on the rail system by the opposition men since February cost the railway aboutTk 30 crore, Railway Minister Mujibul Haque said yesterday.
Road communications between Dhaka and other districts also collapsed as the opposition men continued putting up barricades on different highways yesterday. Ferry and launch services were also badly disrupted on various routes like on Tuesday.
Pro-blockade activists fought
pitched battle with law enforcers and ruling party men and blasted crude bombs and torched buses, cars and other vehicles in different districts, leaving scores injured.
They also blasted several crude bombs inside the district election commission office at Jamalkhan in Chittagong. The extent of damage in the incident could not be immediately known.
Rowdy opposition men also torched ruling party offices in Chittagong, Munshiganj and houses and shops belonging to the ruling Awa mi League men in Satkhira, report our district correspondents.
In Dhaka, at least nine vehicles were torched and dozens of crude bombs blasted. At least 20 people were injured as the opposition activists clashed with law enforcers, blocking the Dhaka-Aricha highway at Phulbaria in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital.
Nine other people were injured in crude bomb attacks near Shahidullah Hall of Dhaka University in die evening.
The opposition men set fire to three private cars at Ashkona in Uttara, a pickup van at Naya Bazar in Old Dhaka and a CNG-run autorickshawin Kalshi of Mirpur.
In Satkhira, Jamaat activist
Shamsur Rahman, 40, died when law enforcers opened fire after being attacked by several hundred Jamaat-Shibirmen around 2:30am.
Police said they came under attack at Abaderhatkhola in Sadar upazila when a team of 350 police, Rab and BGB members went to raid Agardari Alia madrasa, a Jamaat hideout.
Inamul Haque, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said sensing the law enforcers' presence, die Jamaat men, using the loudspeaker of a mosque, asked their party men to come out of homes and resist the lawmen.
Within minutes, about 3,000 Jamaat and Shibir men gathered at Abaderhatkhola. As the law enforcers marched toward Agordari Alia Madrasa area, the Jamaat-Shibir activists resisted them and hurled crude bombs and brick chips at them, Inamul added.
When the law enforcers were retreating in the face of resistance, the Jamaat-Shibir men put up barricades on Kadamtola-Bashdha road with logs.
At one stage, they attacked the law enforcers with sticks and hurled a number of bombs. Police and BGB men then opened fire, leaving the Jamaat man dead on die spot, the
police officer said.
Additional forces from Satkhira helped the law enforcers move out of the area. Later, die Jamaat-Shibir men vandalised and torched houses and shops belonging to AL supporters. They also looted valuables from their houses, police said.
Meanwhile, a housewife died after a big branch of a tree, being chopped by opposition men, fell on her head. The victim is Ambia Khatun, 28, wife of Harun-ar-Rashid o f G op in a di pu r o f Ko la ro a up azi 1 a.
In Sirajganj, a union-level leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), a pro-BNP student wing, and a Jamaat activist were killed when police opened fire after being attacked near Mukundagati Bazar area in Belkuchi upazila around 1:00pm.
The dead are Masum Billah, 25, organising secretary of Dhukuriabera union unit of JCD; and Abdul Jalil, 55, a Jamaat activist. At least 25 more people were injured, three of them bullet-hit, in die clash that lasted around 30 minutes.
In Gazipur, a pro-AL union pa rishad member was killed during a clash between die AL and BNP men in Kaliganj upazila.
Kamal Uddin, 30, was a member of Jamalpur Union Parishad in the
upazila.
The clash erupted when activists of the two arch rivals brought out pro and anti-blockade processions around 2:15pm, said Nazmul Islam Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge of Kaliganj Police Station.
In Chittagong, a battery-run auto-rickshaw driver was killed in Patia upazila as his vehicle fell into a roadside ditch after being chased by pro-blockade activists. The victim is ErshadAli, 22.
Also in the port city, Mohammad Shayed, 20, died after blockaders hurled a crude bomb on an auto-rickshaw he and his mother were in.
The incident happened at Thakur Dighirpar under Satkania upazila around 7:00pm.
Meanwhile, two people injured in crude bomb and arson attacks on Tuesday, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, raising die death toll to 16 in the last two days' blockade violence.
One of them is Anwara Begum, 42, who was hit by a crude bomb at Malibagh in the capital. The other is Mozammel, a human hauler driver, who was set on fire in his vehicle by arsonists atMadartekin the capital.
Two more people died in pre-