At least six people have been injured after fire in vehicles and crude bomb explosions in different areas in the Capital on Sunday ahead of BNP led 20-party alliance’s nationwide shutdown for Monday.
Miscreants set fire to a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Kazipara, Mirpur, around 8pm in the evening. A mother, her son and daughter suffered burns in the incident.
Shamsun Nahar, 55, was going to Mirpur with her son Tazibul Haque, 23, student of Jahangirnagar University, and daughter Anika. The family was on the way to relative's place after their appointments at a Shantinagar pathology centre.
Near Kazipara, people on two rickshaws hurled crude bombs to impede their path and threw a petrol bomb at the CNG.
In a separate incident, a bus was set ablaze at Purana Paltan in the capital around 6:30pm.Two firefighting units doused the blaze.
Morshed Alam, officer-in-charge of Paltan police station, said that there was no reported injury in the incident. The bus was set on fire at the Purana Paltan intersection while it was carrying secretariat staff.
Some youths set the fire to the bus.
Morshed Alam further said some miscreants earlier on the day, around 5pm, blasted a number of crude bombs on the road in front of Gazi Bhaban – near BNP Headquarters – at Nayapaltan.
No one was injured and the miscreants had fled before police arrived.
In two other incidents, crude bombs were set-off within the Dhaka University campus after dusk.
At Shibbari, picketers injured Reena Chowdhury, 28, and Sathi Akhter, 20, by throwing crude bombs. A rickshaw-puller, Harunur Rashid, was injured the TSC area of the Dhaka University in another crude bomb incident.
The BNP-led 20-party alliance has called for a countrywide dawn to dusk strike for Monday protesting of the bar against their rally that was supposed to be held in Gazipur, and demanding that BNP leaders and activists detained by law-enforcement be released.
