At least eight people, including a student of Dhaka University, have sustained injuries in two separate incidents of crude bomb explosions in the capital's New Market on Thursday.
The injured are – Dhaka University student Shahidul Islam, Dhaka College student Piar Hossain, street vendors Shahjahan, Sajal, Simanto, Jamal and his brother Jainal.
The injured have been admitted at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Inspector Mozammel Haque, DMCH Police Outpost in-charge, confirmed the Dhaka Tribune about the injuries.
Quoting the injured, the police said the explosions took place at the No 2 and 4 gates of the New Market in between 6pm and 6:30pm.
Now-a-days exploding crude bombs in public places, especially on the streets becomes a common practice.
More than 200 people, including children, reportedly received injuries in crude bombs explosion across the country during the ongoing non-stop nationwide blockade called by the BNP and its political allies.
So far, more than 35 people have died and scores have been injured in different parts of the country in violence, which mostly involved arson attacks.
Of those, a Large number of arson attacks are being conducted on highways. Hundreds of vehicles, including those belonging to law-enforcers, were burnt and attacked.
The blockade has been celled on January 5 in protest against the confinement of the party chief Khaleda Zia.
Khaleda Zia has been kept confined to her Gulshan party office since January 3 ahead of a party rally, marking “Democracy Killing Day.”
On January 12, the security was relaxed.
But Khaleda never came out; instead she said in a press conference that she was going to stay there and the blockade would continue unless the government took the first steps towards solution.
The relaxed blockade is underway across the country amid sporadic incidents of violence, arson attacks, vandalism and arrests of BNP members.
