Jamaat-Shibir activists continued to unleash terror across the country during the Jamaat-e-Islami-enforced daylong hartal yesterday, protesting the move to execute convicted war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah.

Abdul Hamid, 48, an Awami League activist, died of his injuries early yesterday seven hours after he was abducted and beaten up allegedly by Jamaat-Shibir men in Madhabkathi area of Satkhira.

Local traders alleged that Jamaat-Shibir men abducted Hamid as he had protested the decision of some opposition activists to shut down shops in the area soon after the news regarding Mollah spread.

Jamaat-Shibir activists set fire to a motorcycle and hurled petrol bombs at the branches of Mercantile Bank and Dutch Bangla Bank at Aloka intersection in Rajshahi city last night.

They also smashed the windowpanes of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry office hurling brick chunks around 8:30pm, said Ziaur Rahman,officer-in-charge of Boalia Police Station.

Criminals set fire to the village home of Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar around 5:30am. None was injured in the attack. Police picked up Abu Taleb, a local Jamaat activist, in this connection.

Shibir activists severed the tendons of the right leg of a Chhatra League activist at Bagha upazila in Rajshahi around 6:30pm.

Armed with machetes, about 10 activists of the pro-Jamaat student body Island Chhatra Shibir ambushed Mizanur Rahman, a second-year student of Shah Doula Degree College, when he was going to his village home in Chhatari.

On Tuesday, when the news spread that Jamaat leader Quader Mollah would be executed, Jamaat men went on the rampage across the country. They enforced a hartal that coincided with the opposition's ongoing countrywide blockade.

At least 27 policemen were injured as activists of Jamaat-Shibir clashed with police in Narail, Sylhet and Cox's Bazar districts.

Following a new tactic, the activists of the opposition alliance yesterday removed several steel plates of three bailey bridges in Sirajganj and Pirojpur, disrupting vehicular movement.

The opposition activists also vandalised three offices of Awami League and its associate organisations in Sonarmore area in Shamnagar upazila ofSatkhira around 10:00pm Tuesday.

Train communications on Lalmonirhat-Burimari route remained suspended since around 4:20am yesterday as criminals had removed at least 250 sleeper clips of the lines between Bawra and Patgram stations in Lalmonirhat.

In Narail, at least 15 policemen including the officer-in-charge (investigation) and an ASI of Sadar Police Station were severely injured in an attack by Jamaat-Shibir men in Dumurtola of the municipality around 8:00am.

OC Muktar Hossain was rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital.

According to district Additional Superintendent of Police BM Nuruzzaman, over 100 Jamaat-Shibir men armed with sharp weapons brought out a procession and blocked Narail-Magura road at Dumurtola. As a police team on a pick-up van reached the spot, the activists in four groups attacked them and set the vehicle on fire.

Policemen fired shots to disperse the maraudingactivists.

In Sylhet, around 40 people, including two policemen, were injured as activists of the opposition alliance clashed with police on Sylhet-Sunamganj road atTukerbazar.

Over 300 Jamaat-Shibir men blocked the road around 9:30am and began vandalising some rickshaws and battery-run three-wheelers, witnesses said.

As police tried to disperse them, the blockaders hurled brick chunks at law enforcers and exploded several crude bombs triggering a running battle.

Police fired around 200 rubber bullets and teargas canisters, said Md Ayub, additional deputy commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police.

In Bagerhat, at least 15 people, including five policemen, sustained injuries in a clash between Jamaat men and law enforcers.

Jamaat claimed that three of their activists were wounded by bullets, but police refuted the claim.

Criminals also set fire to an office of Awami League and six business establishments at Srighat Bazar in Bagerhat early yesterday.

In Khulna, a clash between Shibir activists and police at Sonadanga in the city left at least 15 injured.

The clash sparked when police resisted the activists who had blocked a road with logs and hurled 16 crude bombs at the men of the law, police said.

In Natore, Jamaat-Shibir men vandalised a freedom fighters' memorial at the Madrasa intersection and smashed windowpanes of six banks at Kanaikhali. They also ransacked around 15 shops.

In Cox’s Bazar, five policemen were hurt, one severely, as Jamaat-Shibir men clashed with the law enforcers at Bazarghata.

In Gaibandha, opposition activists vandalised and torched at least 25 shops and houses of ruling party leaders at Palashbari upazilaTuesday night.

Activists of the Awami League and its associate organisations burnt some 20 shops at Bhai Bhai market at Dariyapur around yesterday noon.

In Dinajpur, several hundred Jamaat-Shibir men went on the rampage and set fire to some establishments of Haji Danesh Science and lech no logy University.

On Tuesday night, hartal supporters chopped down several hundred roadside trees in Ambari area of Dinajpur-Phulbari highway.

Pickets also vandalised the motorbike of a Jessore correspondent of Bangla daily Prothom Alo at Chanchara Jessore.

Suspected Jamaat-Shibir men attacked an activist of Gonojagoron Mancha at Methorpara intersection of Chapainawabganj last night injuring him badly.

Victim Munshi Nazrul Islam Sujon, 30, was the former organising secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League of Chapainawabganj district unit.

Officer-in-Charge Jasim Uddin of Sadar Police Station said criminals exploded two homemade bombs at Methorpara intersection around 8:15pm and stormed the pharmacy Sujon owned. They stabbed Sujon indiscriminately injuring him in the head and legs.

The attackers also set fire to the shop.

Sujon was taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.

There were reports of violence and vandalism in Feni, Jhenidah, Noakhali, Chandpur, Pabna, Pirojpur, Sherpur, Munshiganj and Bogra late Tuesday night and yesterday.