In the last 15 hours of the nationwide communication blockade, which ended early yesterday, a truck driver, who was injured during a chase by opposition pickets in Noakhali, died. While a Shibir activist sustained bullet injuries in Satkhira.
Driver Nizam, 38, a resident of Feni, died while en route to hospital.
Nizam was critically injured after his vehicle hit a roadside tree and overturned. He was trying to speed away from a group of pickets as they chased him on the Feni-Begumganj road in Senbagh, at around 9pm on Sunday.
His helper, Babul, 25, was also injured in the collision.
Meanwhile, 23-year-old Shibir activist Moyna was injured and subsequently arrested by police around 10pm in front of the Judge’s Court in Satkhira.
Witnesses said pickets were trying to vandalise buses when police intervened and chased them. A counter-chase occurred as they hurled petrol bombs, while police opened fire on them.
Later police arrested the wounded Moyna and took him to a local hospital.
Our Satkhira correspondent adds: army troops, deployed there before the January 5 election, were sent back to the Jessore cantonment yesterday morning.
In this regard, Deputy Commission Nazmul Ahsan said the army was withdrawn as the law and order situation in the district was “stable”.
In Jhenaidah and Kurigram, police arrested at least 38 Jamaat-Shibir men for their alleged involvement in violent activism. In the Mirsarai upazila of Chittagong, police also arrested 14 Jamaat-Shibir men for their alleged links to violence on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway.