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A relatively calm day

Two buses torched in city

Staff Correspondent
The country remained relatively calm without any major incident of violence yesterday on the second day of the 72-hour hartal enforced since Sunday by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.
In the capital, pickets set fire to a bus in front of Petrobangla Bhaban at Karwan Bazar around 1:00pm. Also, criminals torched a BRTC bus at Darussalam area around 8:00pm.
No casualty however was reported in the arson attacks, said officials at the Fire Service and Civil Defence.
Plying of inter-district passenger buses to and from Dhaka was thin as people in general remained fearful of arson attacks on roads and highways.
Meanwhile, Rapid Action Battalion recovered 18 crude bombs from a residence at Kalabagan Monday night.
Rab members caught one Abdul Kadir when he was fleeing after blasting a crude bomb at Panthapath around 9:30pm. Later, based on information gathered from him, they raided a residence at Kalabagan from where they seized the crude bombs, said MarufAhmed, operation officerof Rab-2.
They detained Nur Islam and Monir Hossain in this connection, he added.
The BNP-led alliance has enforced the fresh spell of the 72-hour hartal
since Sunday 6:00am in protest at what they say is the killing of opposition leaders and activists in the name of crossfire, and filing of false cases against the alliance leaders, mostly against BNP and Jamaat-e-lslami leaders.
The shutdown comes on top of an ongoing countrywide blockade that has begun on January 6.
Meanwhile, civil society members and the international community have called for a dialogue to end the violence that has virtually crippled the country's businesses and all other sectors including education and transport. But there has been no progress to that end.
Top business chambers estimate daily loss of businesses at Tk 2,277 crore a day in the ongoing blockade.
Since February 1, the alliance has started to enforce hartals almost on all weekdays except on Fridays and Saturdays, creating huge troubles for about 1.5 million examinees of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams, forcing the government to defer all exams to the weekends.
Since the beginning of the blockade, 78 people have so far been killed, mostly in arson attacks, and over 300 people injured.
Criminals hurled a crude bomb at the house of Awami League senior leader Suranjit Sengupta in the capital's Jigatola around 8:30pm. Suranjit is not in the country now. A window of the AL leader's house was broken in the blast. A case was filed with Hazaribagh Police Station in this connection, police said.
In Chandpur, hartal supporters hurled homemade bombs at a pick-up van carrying medicines around 10:00pm. The driver and a sales representative were injured in the incident.
In Bogra, alleged pickets set afire a truck carrying trees at Gokul area around 9:30pm.