2 hurt in DU crude bomb blast

Two people have sustained injuries in crude bomb explosion in Dhaka University's TSC area on Saturday evening.

The identities of the victims could not be known immediately.

Shahbagh police station OC Sirajul Islam said: “Miscreants exploded a crude bomb at TSC around 7:30pm, leaving two people injured.”

The injured have been taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Now-a-days exploding crude bombs in public places, especially on the streets becomes a common practice.

More than 200 people, including children, reportedly received injuries in crude bombs explosion across the country during the ongoing non-stop nationwide blockade called by the BNP and its political allies.

So far, more than 75 people have died and scores have been injured in different parts of the country in violence, which mostly involved arson attacks.

The blockade has been celled on January 5 in protest against the confinement of the party chief Khaleda Zia.

Khaleda Zia has been kept confined to her Gulshan party office since January 3 ahead of a party rally, marking “Democracy Killing Day.”

 On January 12, 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.

The relaxed blockade is underway across the country amid sporadic incidents of violence, arson attacks, vandalism and arrests of BNP members.