A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leader, who received injuries in a blast while “making bombs,” has succumbed to his injuries on Thursday morning.
Mahbubur Rahman Bappi, general secretary of BNP student front JCD’s New Market unit, died around 6am while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Mozammel Haque, in-charge of DMCH police outpost, confirmed the news to the Dhaka Tribune.
On Wednesday, Bappi and his two relatives received severe injuries in a bomb blast on the second floor of a house in Dhakeswari Road.
Mofiz Uddin Ahmed, deputy commissioner of Lalbagh Division of police, said: “Bappi is a well known bomb maker in the capital’s Nilkhet and Kataban area and better known as Boma Bappi.”
“Inspecting the spot, we have come to know that the explosion occurred while he was making bombs. We have detained a total of 10 persons for interrogation.”
The BNP-led 20-party alliance has been enforcing nationwide non-stop roads and waterways blockade since January 5.
The BNP chairperson called the non-stop blockade on January 5 after she was barred from coming out of her Gulshan office.
BNP said she was “confined” but the government said she was free to go home.
Police kept in place extremely tight security around Khaleda’s Gulshan office for 16 days.
On Monday, the security was relaxed.
But Khaleda never came out; instead she said in a press conference that she was going to stay there and the blockade would continue unless the government took the first steps towards solution.
Blockade-related violence has killed at least 35 people over the last 15 days.
Hundreds of vehicles, including those belonging to law-enforcers, were burnt and attacked.
The government has announced rewards for catching anarchists responsible for violence during hartal and blockades.
At least three people – whom the BNP-Jamaat-led alliance claimed were their men – were killed in alleged gunfights with law enforcers over the last few days, triggering a sense of panic among the party’s ranks in connection with the joint drive of the law enforcement agencies.