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Trains Made to Derail, Again

3 killed, 45 injured

Clash with cops leave 1 killed, 50 hurt in Feni

Star Report
Three passengers were killed and 35 others injured as four coaches and the engine of Padmarag Express veered off the tracks in Gaibandha yesterday after blockaders ripped up fish plates and
clips from the rail lines.
Similar acts of sabotage caused the derailment of two trains in Khulna and Chandpur, leaving at least 10 passengers injured and suspending Dhaka-Khulna and Chandpur-Chittagong rail communications.
Wahidur Rahman Babu, a victim of an arson attack on a bus near Shishu Park last Thursday, died at the burn unit of Dhaka medical College Hospital early yesterday, as the opposition's 131-hour blockade entered its fifth day.
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In Feni, Harun Ur Rashid, vice president of Farhadnagar union Jubo Dal, was killed in a clash with law enforcers.
Witnesses said activists of the Chhatra League and Jubo League hurled five bombs on a Jubo Dal procession on Trunk Road around 4:15pm yesterday.
Later, hundreds of opposition activists vented their anger by attacking and vandalising roadside shops, banks and police camps, they added.
To bring the situation under control, police and BGB personnel opened fire, triggering an hour-long clash that injured at least 50, including Harun and three cops.
The Jubo Dal leader was rushed to Feni Sadar Hospital where he breathed his last. In protest, the pro-BNP youth organisation called a daylong hartal in Feni for today.
One person was killed and 15 others were injured when a truck they were in overturned while speeding away being chased by blockaders in Kishoreganj sadar upazila on Tuesday night.
The dead, lljjal Sarkar, 40, owner of the truck, was going to Comilla along with 20 others.
So far, 22 people have been killed during the ongoing blockade that began on Saturday.
In Dhaka, pro-blockade activists torched a bus on the premises of Ibn Sina Hospital at Kalyanpur around 3:30pm and another in Tantibazar area of Old Dhaka around 9:15am yesterday.
Many crude bombs were exploded in several parts of the capital.
In Gazipur, opposition men attacked the house of district Awami League President and lawmaker AKM Mozammel Haque in Dakhhin Chhaya Bithi area and set fire to the veranda. Neighbours promptly doused the fire. Mozammel was not at the house.
The opposition activists also fought with police in Lalmonirhat, Jhenidah, Rangpur, Natore and Gazipur, injuring at least 50, including two journalists in Jhenidah.
They blocked roads and vandalised and
burned vehicles in several districts, reported our correspondents.
The Gaibandha train derailment occurred after pickets removed fishplates from rail lines at Kachuya, a place between Mohimaganj and Bonarpara, halting rail links of Bonarpara with other parts of the country early yesterday.
Fire fighters from Sonatola and Gaibandha rushed to the spot and rescued the passengers trapped inside the wreckage.
A relief train from Lalmonirhat reached the site around 2:00pm, said Ayub Hossain, station master of Bonarpara rail station.
Saidur Raman, officer-in-charge of Bonarpara rail police, said two persons were arrested in this connection.
The dead, however, could not be identified as of filing this report around 8:00pm. Of the injured, eight were rushed to Bogra Medical College Hospital in critical condition.
In Khulna, at least 10 passengers were injured as five compartments of Khulna-bound Nakshikatha train derailed around 1:30am after blockade supporters removed fishplates from the rail tracks near Bejerdanga station in Phultala upazila.
Following the derailment, train services from Khulna to Dhaka and northern districts, including Rajshahi, remained suspended as of 9:00pm. A relief train from Khulna station was in operation.
Rail communications between Chandpurand Chittagong also got snapped as three compartments of Intercity Meghna Express with 500 passengers skidded off the tracks.
This derailment too was caused by removing fishplates. None was reported hurt as the train was moving slowly, railway sources said.
Since the first spell of the blockade starting on November 26, opposition activists have been mainly targeting the railway.
Yesterday, intelligence agencies at an inter-ministerial meeting at the home ministry said at least 1,041 spots on around 3,000km rail tracks across the country were vulnerable to attacks and over 61 upazilas remained violence-hit areas.