People from all walks of life in Chittagong defied the first phase of Jamaat-e-Islami enforced hartal yesterday.
They came out to the streets for their daily works as any other normal days. Public transports, including buses, CNG-run auto-rickshaws, were seen plying on the streets.
No incidence of violence was reported during hartal hours in the port city yesterday.
However, leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student of body of Jamaat, brought out sudden processions in different places, including Kadamtali, Jail Road, and Matiarpul areas, in the city.
On Tuesday, the Islamic party's Acting Ameer Moqbul Ahmad announced the two-day countrywide dawn to dusk shutdown for yesterday and today (Thursday) protesting the death sentence to its top leader ATM Azharul Islam for war crimes.
Yesterday's hartal began around 6am and will end at 5:30pm.
Activities at government and non-government offices found to be normal during the hartal hours.
Additional law enforcers were deployed at the key points in the city to avoid any untoward incident, police said.
Some 2,000 additional police personnel were deployed in the different points in the city, said Chittagong Metropolitan Commissioner Additional Commissioner (Crime and Operation) Banaj Kumar Majumdar.
Six platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel were also in high alert with the police force in the city, he city.