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No blockade from today

Staff Correspondent
The 18-party enforced countrywide blockade ended at 6.00am today relieving the nation of a gruelling two and a half months-Iong suffering due to hartals and blockades by the BNP-led opposition combine.
The opposition announced on Saturday that with the 24-hr blockade ending this morning, hartals and blockade programmes had been stalled indefinitely till further notice.
Yesterday's was the sixth bout of blockade enforced by the opposition alliance since October 27 last year.
In the last 78 days, people had to endure 15 days of hartals and 36 days of rail, roads and waterways blockades, most of which were marked by mindless violence.
In between, the nation saw a virtual blockade of two days on December 29 and 30, when the government cut off the capital from the rest of the country by preventing vehicles from entering in a bid to thwart the opposition-called "March for Democracy" to resist the January 5 national polls.
The last day of the extended blockade programme by the opposition passed without any major disturbances.
People, who had to pass the past two and a half months amid fears of violence, poured out in the streets like any normal day.
Many schools and colleges, which mostly remained closed during this period due to security concerns for the children, remained open yesterday.
All sorts of vehicles, including public buses, plied the streets, often causing gridlock in different points of the city.
Many intercity buses to and from Dhaka operated, reinstating road communication between the capital and other places of the country.
No major incident of violence was reported from anywhere in the country.
However, two people were injured in a cocktail blast at Rajar Dewri in the capital.
Advocate I Ijjal Sarkar, 32, and his assistant Sirajul Islam, 25, were hurt after blockaders exploded a crude bomb around 3:00pm, the officer-in-charge of Kotwali police station told The Daily Star.
The duo were rushed to Dhaka Medical Gollege Hospital where the former was still receiving treatment. Sirajul was discharged after first aid was given.