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Blockaders continue targeting trains

More than 100 passengers hurt as train derails after tracks damaged; more clashes

Star Report
Over 100 passengers were injured as the Dhaka-bound Mohanagar Godhuli derailed after blockade supporters removed fishplates from the rail track in Burichang upazila ofComilla yesterday.
Seven out of 13 compartments of the intercity train veered off the route in Pachora area near Rajapur Rail Station
around 7:30pm, halting Dhaka-Chittagong rail link on the second day of the opposition's 72-hour blockade.
Md Shahidullah, officer-in-charge of Laksam rail police, has been suspended for failing to ensure monitoring of the rail line at the site and give the authorities prior warning, officials say.
Shafiqur Rahman, acting station master
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of Comilla Railway Station, told our district correspondent that locals initially took the injured to nearby hospitals. Later, eight injured, including the train driver, were sent to Comilla Medical College Hospital.
A relief train from Laksam reached the spot and it would take at least 10 hours to clear the route, he added.
At least four passengers were injured as blockaders set fire to Rajshahi-bound Uttara Express in Natore sadar upazila around 9:30am yesterday.
Another Dhaka-bound train, the Dhoomketu Express from Rajshahi, derailed in Charghat upazila around 1:40am as blockaders removed fishplates.
The locomotive and five compartments went off the lines, suspending the city's rail links with the rest of the country, said Pankaj Kumar Shaha, Rajshahi divisional railway manager.
Luckily, none was hurt in this derailment.
Pickets uprooted tracks at two points to stop the relief train from Ishwardi, delaying the rescue for hours. Finally, the salvage train started operation around noon.
The blockade also disrupted train services on Chittagong-Sylhet, Dhaka-Rajshahi and Chandpur-Chittagong routes.
Though no casualties were reported yesterday, the opposition men clashed with law enforcers and ruling party men and exploded
crude bombs across the country, leaving many injured.
In Gazipur, at least 33 people - 29 opposition activists and four cops - were injured in a clash at Kaliakair upazila. The upazila unit BNP called a daylong hartal for today.
Pro-blockade activists burned a bus carrying garment workers at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj, leaving at least seven injured.
They also torched at least seven vehicles, including a truck and a newspaper van, and vandalised 15 others at different places.
Clashes, vandalism and explosion also took place in Mymensingh, Noakhali, Moulvibazar, Chandpur and Feni, leaving at least 40 injured.
The opposition called hartals in Natore and Gaibandha districts and in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali for today.
Road communications between Dhaka and other districts remained suspended as activists blocked different highways, reported our correspondents.
Alleged pickets torched local election office in Sylhet early yesterday, reported UNB. They also exploded bombs on the premises of another election office in Natore Saturday night.
In Dhaka, blockaders set fire to three buses, one each atTantibazar and Dhanmondi in the city, and one in Dhamrai. They blasted four crude bombs near Gabtoli terminal in the morning in the presence of Rab personnel there.
They also hurled a homemade bomb at the Gulshan home of former chief of the AntiCorruption Commission Golam Rahman, injuring two of his home employees.
The opposition men brought out procession at Azimpur, Khilkhet, and Mirpur-11 and left the scene exploding crude bombs after being chased by law enforcers.
Jubo Dal activists made fire on rail tracks at Karwan Bazar.
The Chittagong-bound Meghna Express carrying at least 1,000 passengers narrowly escaped an accident after Abul Baker, a staff of Meher station, noticed that fishplates were missing from the lines and warned the authorities of the matter.
The rail communications between Chittagong and other districts was suspended for more than an hour as blockade supporters made fire on railway tracks at Ispahani Gate of the port city around 9:40am. The BNP yesterday observed a daylong hartal there.
With its route blocked, the Dhaka-bound Chattala Express, which left Chittagong Railway Station around 9:00am, got stuck at Pahartali station.
In Lalmonirhat, the opposition men put barricades on rail tracks at two points near Lalmonirhat and Mahendranagar stations, suspending the rail service from Lalmonirhat to Dhaka, Bogra, Kurigram and Parbatipur for three hours.