Ganajagaran Mancha organiser Bappaditya Basu and a rickshaw-puller were injured yesterday, when unidentified miscreants hurled bombs at them at Shahbagh.
Bappaditya, who is also the president of Bangladesh Chhatra Moitree, and rickshaw-puller Asad Miah, 70, have been admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said friends and co-activists of the Ganajagaran Mancha.
Sirajul Islam, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station, said: “Two bombs were hurled at Bappa[ditya] when he had just crossed Aziz Cooperative Super Market on his way to Shahbagh from Elephant Road through Katabon by a rickshaw at around 7:45pm.”
“Bappa sustained injuries to his left leg and the 70-year-old rickshaw-puller Asad Miah also sustained injuries from the splinters,” the OC said, adding: “There was a friend of Bappa along with him on the rickshaw, but he did not receive any injury.”
The OC said attempts were on to find out the attackers and arrest them.
Earlier on February 15, Ganajagaran Mancha activist and blogger Ahmed Rajeeb Haider was hacked to death in capital’s Pallabi, while another blogger Asif Mohiuddin was attacked on January 13 in the city’s Uttara.
Some cadres of Ansarullah Bangla Team, including several students of a private university, were arrested by detectives in connection with the incidents.