The death toll from widespread violence rose to 11 on the second day of the 60-hour countrywide shutdown enforced by opposition parties.
A teenager and a trucker were among the six killed on Monday.
More than 200 people also suffered injuries when pickets, police and ruling Awami League men engaged in clashes at various spots in the capital and elsewhere in the country.
Several hundred crude bombs were set off and vehicles set ablaze and vandalised.
In Chandpur, a 15-year old boy named Md Arju was shot dead and more than 50 others injured in a gunfight between 18-party activists and Awami League men in Puran Bazar area in the district town in the afternoon. District unit Jubo Dal claimed Arju was their activist.
Chanpur police super Amir Jafar said a chase and counter-chase took place between the ruling party and opposition men in the area in the morning during the hartal hours. At one stage, a gunfight broke out around 12:30pm, leaving 22 people, including Arju and Hakim Ali, 25, injured. Arju was later declared dead when taken to hospital.
Meanwhile, district administration imposed section 144 in Chandpur town from 2pm on Monday till 6pm on Tuesday.
In Jamalpur, Awami League supporter Shahjada, 40, was killed in a clash with pickets at Rambhadra Bazar in Islampur upazila in the morning.
OC of Islampur police station Kazi Saidur Rahman said the clash between pickets and anti-hartal activists broke out when the ruling AL supporters tried to obstruct the hartal supporters from vandalising vehicles in the area around 8:30am. The two groups swooped on each other with local weapons, leaving Shahjada dead on the spot.
In Chittagong, truck driver Mohammad Wasim, 30, was killed as his vehicle plunged into a roadside ditch after being chased by pickets in Satkania upazila early on Monday.
OC of Satkania police station Abdul Latif said pickets chased the Cox’s Bazar-bound truck on the Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar Highway around 12:45am.
Elsewhere in the port city, at least 3-4 crude bombs were hurled at a BNP procession led by BNP Vice-President Abdullah Al Noman at Halisahar Nayabazar around 1:50pm. No one, however, was hurt in the blasts.
In Jhenaidah, unidentified criminals killed BNP leader Abul Hossain, president of Harinakunda upazila unit BNP, at Dakhalpur Bazar in the upazila around midday on Monday.
OC of Harinakunda police station Muibul Islam said a group of up to eight terrorists hurled several crude bombs at Abul Hossain, also chairman of Daulatpur Union Parishod, while he was on his way home from his office around 12:30pm.
When he fell on the ground being struck by splinters, the criminals chopped Abul Hossain with sharp weapons, leaving him dead on the spot.
In Tangail, Jubo Dal leader Abdul Alim, 30, was killed in a clash between two factions of BNP at Hatubhanga in Mirzapur upazila on Monday afternoon.
Police and witnesses said a clash broke out between the supporters of BNP leader Abul Kalam Azad Siddique and his rival Firoz Haider in Gorai area in the morning leaving 15 people injured. Alim, who was injured in the clash, later died at the Mirzapur Kumudini Hospital.
In Kishoreganj, BNP activist Hossain Ali, 35, was killed in a clash between police and hartal supporters at Batpara in Kuliarchar upazila.
Witnesses said a clash broke out between law enforcers and hartal supporters in the area in the morning that left Hossain seriously injured. Hossain succumbed to his injuries at the Bhagalpur Jahurul Haq Hospital around 6pm.
Elsewhere, over 100 people were injured in clashes between opposition activists and police at Bajitpur bazaar, Sarar char, Halimpur and Pirijpur in Bajitpur uapzila in the district. Following the clashes, administration imposed section 144 in Bajitpur upazila from 6am Tuesday until further notice.
In the capital, crude bombs went off and several vehicles were vandalised at different parts of the city.
Rashed Nizam, a reporter of Channel 24, sustained injures in a crude bomb blast at Mouchak intersection around 2:30pm. He was admitted to the United Hospital in the city.
Pickets also set an office of the ruling party on fire in the capital’s Dania early yeserday.
A mini truck at the capital’s Satrasta, a covered van in Mirpur Section 11, a truck in Savar EPZ, and another truck at on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway were vandalised.
Police foiled a procession of hartal supporters by charging batons and firing several rounds of rubber bullets near the Hossain Market in Badda area around 7:20am.
