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Laxmipur Turns Battle Zone

4 killed, 28 injured

Another dies in Comilla

Star Report
At least four people were shot dead and 28 were injured when Rapid Action Battalion personnel opened fire during their clash with opposition men in Laxmipur town yesterday morning.
Jamaat activist Anwar Hossain was killed and 38 people, including three policemen, were injured in Comilla after police clashed with Jamaat men in Monoharganj upazila, on the last day of the opposition alliance's blockade.
In Laxmipur, the clash erupted after a Rab team raided the house of district BNP General Secretary Sahabuddin Sabu around 6:00am to arrest him, reports a correspondent from Laxmipur.
Sabu and his family tried to resist and the law enforcers shot Sabu in the leg before arresting him and his brother Azizul Karim, witnesses claimed.
As the news spread, activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, a pro-BNP student body, brought out a procession and engaged in a clash with the Rab team in Chawkbazar area of the town.
Rab personnel opened fire to bring the situation under control and three people were killed and at least 28 opposition men were injured.
The deceased were: Shihab Hossain, a Shibir activist; Sumon, BNP's youth wing Juba Dal activist; and Mahbubur Rahman, a trader.
The mob also beat a man, aged around 30, dead, suspecting him to be a Rab member.
Protesting the deaths, the activists of the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance along with locals cut off the Rab team, leaving them surrounded inside the Laxmipur police lines around noon. They blocked the roads from the police lines with logs.
Sources claimed that two Rab helicopters from Dhaka went to the area to rescue them, but the elite force refuted the claim and said the helicopters were on reconnaissance duty.
Rab Media Wing Director Habibur Rahman said the Rab personnel in the helicopters landed and briefed the commander on the ground about the situation around them before returning to Dhaka.
The opposition has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district on Saturday. They also claimed that law enforcers killed Juba Dal leader Jewel and took away his body.
Violence flared across the country after the Supreme Court yesterday rejected the review petition of war criminal Quader Mollah's death sentence. Mollah was executed later in the night.
Before his execution, Jamaat-Shibir men and 18-party opposition activists attacked and clashed with law enforcers, ransacked banks, torched and vandalised vehicles, exploded crude bombs and blocked highway's and rail lines.
Jamaat-Shibir men torched and vandalised Awami League lawmaker Abdul Mannan’s home in the Colony area of Bogra town around 7:00pm. Witnesses said they exploded several homemade bombs in the area before and after the attack.
They also blocked around 15km stretch of highway, between Sherpur upazila of Bogra and Shahjahanpur upazila of Sirajganj, until Thursday afternoon by chopping down trees, placing logs, and torching tyres.
They also stabbed two Awami League activists -- Giasuddin and Khokan - at Nalta of Kaliganj in Satkhira and set fire to the house of Liakat Hossain, brother of Satkhira upazila parishad chairman.
They beat up army Lance Corporal SM Jalilur Rahman at Mathurapur area fracturing both his arms.
In Sylhet, Jamaat-Shibir activists vandalised Rainagar branch of Basic Bank and Rupali Bank branch at Madina Market, reports our staff correspondent there.
The attackers stormed the Basic Bank branch and vandalised the windowpanes and furniture around noon. They also hurled two petrol bombs through the windows on the first floor but they did not explode, said Additional Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Ayub of Sylhet Metropolitan Police.
Shibir men also threw brick chunks at the showroom of Singer, South-East Bank, Dhaka Bank and some shops in Madina market area.
Ten motorcycles and an auto-rickshaw were also vandalised.
Two Shibir activists sustained bullet injuries after pro-ruling party student body Bangladesh Chhatra League's former joint convener of the city unit, ASM Rashed, shot them.
Rashed claimed that he was attacked and he had fired in self defence.
The injured Shibir men were admitted to a private hospital in the city, Shibir sources claimed.
ADC Muhammad Ayub said it was not clear whether the revolver used in the incident was licensed and thattheywerelookingfortheShibirmen.
At least 20 people, including two policemen, were injured in a clash between law enforcers and Shibir men in Osmani Medical Road area. Police had to fire rubber bullets during the incident.
In Rajshahi, Jamaat-Shibir activists clashed with police in at least eight places in the city, leaving four police constables injured, reports our staff correspondent in Rajshahi.
Police fired several hundred rubber bullets and teargas shells when the opposition men started demonstrating on the streets at Binodpur Bazar, Kajla, Talaimari, Fire Brigade intersection, Ranibazar, Loknath School intersection, and Court Bazar areas at 1:45pm.
Four police constables were injured as Shibir men hurled homemade bombs at two police trucks and hurled brick chunks at Sonadighi intersection, said Ziaur Rahman, officer-in-charge ofBoalia Police Station.
Jamaat-Shibir activists attacked the home of ex-state minister Omar Faruk Chowdhury in the city's Sagorpara area last night.
The guard room of the minister's home was damaged as the attackers blasted at least 10 homemade bombs, petrol bombs, said Shafikul Islam, personal secretary' to the minister.
None was hurt.
In Kushtia, three petrol bombs were hurled at the village home of Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu at Golapnagar, Bheramara, early yesterday. The bombs hit the main gate and there were no reports of casualties.
In Chittagong, Jamaat-Shibir men hurled brick chunks and crude bombs at a procession of Awami League at Andarkilla intersection of the city yesterday. They also set an ambulance and two telephone boxes on fire.
Three policemen, including Assistant (Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (Kotwali Zone) Mirza Saiem Mahmud, were injured in the bomb blasts.
In Sitakunda, Shibir activists torched a truck and a lorry' on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Foujdarhat area of the upazila, said police.
Two policemen were injured when a crude bomb was hurled on them at Mohipal filling station on Dhaka-Chittagong highway.
Two more policemen-Assistant Sub-Inspector Kamruzzaman and constable Khokan Barna - of Panchlaish Police Station suffered shrapnel injuries from bombs hurled by Shibir men at Badurtala area in Chittagong city in the evening.
Opposition activists put up barricades on roads and highways in Chandpur, Kishoreganj, Satkhira, Moulvibazar and Natore by chopping down trees and placing them the roads.
They clashed with Border Guard Bangladesh personnel when they tried to clear Satkhira-Asashuni and Satkhira-Khulna roads, report our correspondents.
The capital, however, witnessed few acts of violence. The blockaders torched a bus at Sayedabad and exploded several crude bombs.
In Gaibandha, at least 25 people sustained injuries in a clash between Jamaat and Awami League activists in Palashbari upazila.
Activists of Jamaat-Shibir vandalised and set fire to Babu Market, owned by an Awami League leader, and the houses of Nuruzzaman Prodhan, president Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal Palashbari unit, and trader Mukul Ahmed.
They also vandalised and set fire to Awami League and Jubo League offices at Ramaigasi area of Natore yesterday.
In Moulvibazar, a group of Jamaat-Shibir activists attacked and vandalised the village home of Siraj liddin, president of Muktijoddha Command Council of Barlekha upazila last night.