A BNP leader and local union parishad chairman was killed in hartal violence in Jhenaidah’s Harinakundu upazila on Monday during the opposition’s 60-hour shutdown.
Police said Abul Hossain, 55, was killed in a bomb attack carried out by unidentified miscreants.
Harinakundu police station Officer-in-Charge Mahibul Hassan said a gang of up to eight miscreants carried out the attack while Abul was having tea at a stall around noon.
He added that the miscreants shot UP Chairman Abul Hossain again after the bomb attack to ensure he was dead.
Harinakundu Union Parishad Chairman Abul Hossain was the son of Abdul Gafur from Dakhalpur in the upazila.
Additional law enforcers were deployed to the area after the incident, he added.
This raised the death toll of the BNP-led opposition’s 60-hour nationwide shutdown to at least eight by Monday noon.
Four of the casualties belonged to the ruling Awami League, two to the BNP and one to the Jamaat-e-Islami.
On Monday, An Awami League activist died in Jamalpur and a truck driver was killed by stones pelted by pickets in Chittagong’s Satkania.
Earlier on Sunday, the first day of the hartal, at least five people died throughout Pabna, Jessore, Pirojpur, Bogra and Faridpur.
