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2 more dead

Arson, blasts mark 2nd day of blockade

Star Report
A Chhatra League activist was killed in a clash between Awami League and BNP men in Sylhet while a victim of blockade violence succumbed to her injuries in Savar yesterday.
The former, Masud Ahmed, 23, was vice-president of BCL Chhatak Technical School and College unit.
Activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, a student body associated with the BNP, and AL-backed student body BCL got into an altercation at Chhatak upazila bus stand around 2:30pm when a BCL man tried to board a rickshaw during the opposition's hartal in Sylhet, witnesses said.
A clash then followed between BNP supporters loyal to former lawmaker Kolim
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Uddin Milon and AL activists loyal to Kalam Chowdhury. Several people, including Masud, sustained injuries at that time.
Masud was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital where he died around 8:15pm, said Nazrul Hussain, Sunamganj superintendent of police (SP).
Kolim Uddin Milon, meanwhile, at a press conference at the upazila BNP office called hartal at Chhatak and Doarabazar upazilas for today.
Following the announcement, additional police had been deployed at Chhatak town, said theSP.
In Savar at Enam Medical College and Hospital, Rehana Begum died after fighting for life for seven days.
She and nine others had sustained injuries when they hurried out of a speeding bus at Rajfulbaria in Savar on the Dhaka-Aricha highway on December 2, as pickets hurled a petrol bomb at the vehicle heading to Dhaka.
Three buses were torched on the Dhaka-Mawa highway at Rajendrapur of Dakhin Keraniganj early today ahead of the Jamaat-e-Islami's countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal. The party called the shutdown protesting the death warrant issued against its leader and war crimes convict Abdul QuaderMollah.
Meanwhile, sporadic incidents of violence marked the second day of the 72-hour blockade yesterday as the opposition men blasted crude bombs and carried out arson attacks across the
country.
BNP and its associate organisations called hartal in 27 districts for today.
In the capital, the intensity of violence or the damage done was less compared to that of the first day. A mobile court sentenced a youth to one year's imprisonment for possessing crude bombs at North Badda.
The BNP-led 18-party alliance enforced countrywide blockade thrice in the last two weeks, demanding the suspension of the election schedule, installation of a non-party government to oversee the next polls, and release of its detained leaders.
The opposition activists went on the rampage at Gangni upazila in Meherpur, leaving a policeman and two local journalists injured.
Police said around 2,000 BNP and Jamaat-Shibir activists brought out a procession from Shishirpara area around 8:30am. The rowdy activists hurled at least 10 crude bombs at the Gangni upazila election office and vandalised the office. They, however, could not enter the office as police baton-charged them.
I lartal-supporters also ransacked upazila higher secondary education office, sub-registrar's office, a private clinic, roadside shops and other business establishments, said Masudul Alam, officer-in-charge of Gangni Police Station.
Later, police in association with the Rapid Action Battalion dispersed the marauding activists. Upazila Nirbahi Officer Abdus Salam said three platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh were deployed in the upazila.
At least 10 people were injured in a clash between blockaders and police at Basurhat in Companyganj of Noakhali, while a running battle between police and opposition men left 10, including three policemen, injured in Jhenidah town.
Two people, including a police constable, suffered splinter injuries as blockaders hurled at least four-five crude bombs at a police-carrying van in Chittagong city around 6:00pm, police said. In another incident, bank official Sabuj Chowdhury sustained wounds in a crude bomb blast in the city's Didar market area.
In Bogra, blockaders removed at least 32 elastic rail clips on Bogra-Shantahar rail route early yesterday. No casualty was reported, as no train was to take the route at that time. The rail clips were later reinstalled.
Bomb blasts and vandalism of vehicles were also reported from Khulna, Munshiganj, and Narayanganj. The opposition men blocked the highways by putting logs and burning tyres, reported our district correspondents.