At least 23 explosions took place and two vehicles were torched during the second day of the 60-hour hartal in the capital on Monday.
Our correspondent reported that a mini-truck was set on fire at Satrasta in the Tejgaon area around 4:20am, and a covered van was torched in Mirpur-11 around 5am.
Miscreants set off a cocktail bomb in front of Jatiya Party Presidium Member Barrister Anisul Islam Mahmud’s residence at Road 117 in Gulshan 2, Dhaka, on Monday evening.
Confirming the incident, Deputy Commissioner of police of Gulshan division Khandakar Lutfur Kabir Chowdhury said: “The explosion took place around 7pm. No one was detained in this connection.”
Pro-hartal activists set off seven crude bombs in front of the Judge Court in the old part of the capital around 3:30pm.
Kotwali police station Officer-in-charge Shah Alam told the Dhaka Tribune that additional security forces have been deployed in the area after the incident.
Three crude bombs were set off in the capital's Panthapath area in the afternoon.
Sources said five handmade bombs exploded at the Pallabi bus stand around 6am and two blasts took place near the secretariat around 7:30am.
Three blasts were carried out in Dhanmondi area near Star Kabab, two at Khilkhet and three from a Jamaat-e-Islami procession in Basabo around at 6:40am.
Picketers hurled several handmade bombs at the police in Badda in the early hours of day.
Badda police station Officer-in-Charge Iqbal Hossain confirmed this, and said police were compelled to fire rubber bullets to bring situation under control.
