Arson, arrests, clash in second phase too
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Local BNP said their activists were hit by pellets as police used their shotguns, a claim police denied.
In the capital, police said three police personnel of Uttara West Police Station were hurt as BNP activists hurled two crude bombs at House Building area in Uttara.
Police detained Kazi Md Hasan, a former vice-president of Gazipur city unit Chhatra Dal, in connection with the incident.
Awlad Hossain, officer-in-charge of Hatirjheel Police Station, said two crude bombs were thrown at police vehicles from Moghbazar-Malibagh flyover around 7:30pm yesterday.
In Thakurgaon, two constables were hurt after BNP-Jamaat activists hurled crude bombs when the law enforcers tried to disperse pickets who obstructed traffic at Kalirhat intersection, said police.
Three demonstrators were held.
Pickets blasted crude bombs, vandalised a truck and a police vehicle in Ishwardi rail gate area of Pabna around 7:30pm, said Arbinda Sarkar, OC of Ishwardi Police Station.
Three crude bombs went off in Munshiganj town last night, said Aminul Islam, OC of Munshiganj Sadar Police Station.
The capital witnessed significantly lower traffic on the first working day of the week. Very few long-haul buses left the capital. However, rail communication was unhampered.
ARRESTS, CASES
Hours after Rab arrested Altaf Hossain, former home and commerce minister, from Tongi in a case filed over the vandalism of the chief justice’s residence during BNP-police clash on October 28, he was produced before a Dhaka court.
The court rejected his bail petition and sent him to jail.
Although Rab claimed to have arrested Altaf from Tongi, Shamsuddin Dider, an official of BNP chairperson’s media wing, said plainclothes DB police arrested him at his Uttara home.
A team of DB police picked up Shahjahan Omar in the capital, he added.
A Dhaka court yesterday placed him on a four-day remand in connection with a case filed over torching of vehicles in New Market area on Saturday.
Rab also arrested former Jhikargachha upazila chairman and BNP leader Sabira Nazmul Munni, 45, from Ghop area in Jashore town early yesterday in a case filed for sabotage in the district on October 31.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told a virtual press briefing yesterday that law enforcers arrested over 5,284 party leaders and activists in 122 cases across the country from October 24 until yesterday afternoon.
[Our correspondents in Bogura, Pabna, Munshiganj, Thakurgaon, Sylhet, and Noakhali contributed to this report.]