The 60-hour general shutdown, called by the 18-party alliance, is being marked on Sunday across the country amid blasts, vandalism and arson.
Shibir activists set a passenger bus on fire at Shanirakhra in Jatrabari around 8:30am. Police detained a Shibir activist from the spot.
The Shibir men staged a procession in the Kaltabazar area of old Dhaka during the hartal. A newspaper hawker received a bullet wound as police fired blank shots to disperse the procession.
The injured, Mostafa, was admitted to National Medical Hospital.
The opposition activists staged pro-hartal processions at the Nabisco intersection and in the Badda area of the capital. They also exploded several crude bombs from the processions.
The pro-hartal activists set six BRTC buses at Gabtoli depot on fire around 4:45am. Of the buses, two were burnt to ashes.
Pickets blasted three crude bombs in Dhanmondi and three in Mohammadpur in the morning.
The 18-party supporters torched two buses in Mirpur 2 area around 7:30am.
Police arrested eight Shibir activists at a pro-hartal procession in Mirpur 11 area in the morning.
Miscreants hurled patrol bomb at Awami League’s Jatrabai unit office in early hours of the hartal. Later police and locals doused the flames.
A huge number of law enforcers have been deployed at different points of the capital to avert hartal violence.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia announced the hartal at the Suhrawardy Udyan rally on Friday.
On Saturday, 18-party activists carried out violence throughout the country supporting the hartal.
Pro-hartal cadres of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami set off crude bombs at the residences of the chief election commissioner, several ministers, political leaders, members of the judiciary and the offices of several private TV channels.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday telephoned Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia requesting her to recall the strike, but the BNP chief said she could not entertain the request as it was an 18-party programme.
