Four people were burnt as a bus was set on fire at Khilgaon in the capital yesterday while another four were injured in two crude bomb blasts at Mirpur and Palashi. Stray acts of subversion and violence were reported in Comilla, Barisal, Khulna, Noakhali. Three people sustained injuries in the incidents.
The four burn victims, including a retired policeman named Jamaluddin, were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors said they suffered 6-15% burn.
Jamaluddin, 55, whose condition was worse than the others, told the Dhaka Tribune that four-five youths were on the bus and they set the vehicle on fire while getting down near the Khilgaon flyover around 9pm.
Jamaluddin and his wife, daughter and granddaughter were returning home by that bus.
At Mirpur 11, two people were injured when miscreants hurled a crude bombs around 9:30pm.
Two more people – a Dhaka College student and a Buet employee – were injured in another bomb blast at Palashi in the capital around 8pm.
Meanwhile, Wari police station OC Tapan Chandra Saha said they had arrested Mozammel Hossain Mukta, a local BNP leader and a former ward councillor at Wari, in connection with the recent petrol bomb and crude bomb attacks.
The OC told the Dhaka Tribune that they had arrested Mukta on the basis of information provided by those who had been held earlier in connection with attacks over the past few days.
In the capital miscreants burnt down two passenger buses at Tantibazar and Kaptanbazar earlier in the day.
Miscreants set fire to an Abdullahpur-bound bus of Victor Paribahan at Tantibazar intersection around 8:30am while another passenger bus of Madina Enterprise was torched at Kaptanbazar in the Gulistan area around 2:30pm, said Nilufar Yeasmin, an official of the fire service headquarters.
Firefighting units rushed to the spots and doused the fires. No one was injured in the incidents, he said.
Apart from this, vehicles moved normally on almost all streets in the capital until evening. Even some inter-district and long-route buses left the capital. Train and launch services were also normal.
Our Noakhali correspondent reports, miscreants hurled petrol bombs at a truck on Thursday night injuring its driver Monjurul Islam Monju at Sebarhat Pachchimbazar on Feni-Noakhali highways.
The truck, laden with cement, came from Chittagong and was going to Dhaka.
Senbagh police station Officer-in-Charge Mominul Islam said the driver received burns on his hands as the bomb hit him breaking through the windshield about 11pm.
The pickets were able to flee the spot before police reached the spot, he said.
Besides, pickets torched a covered van stationed in front of a restaurant at Maijdi area around 5am. Police arrested 14 BNP-Jamaat men for their alleged involvement in the two incidents.
Our Barisal correspondent reports, pickets set fire to a covered-van plying the Barisal-Madaripur route in Barisal.
Police said the driver and the helper of the van were injured in the attack, allegedly made by pro-blockade pickets near Kataksthal government primary school on Barisal-Dhaka highway early Friday.
Sajjad Hossain, OC of Gournadi PS said injured driver Liton Haoladar, and his helper Tuhin Mridha, left the place with the vehicle for Madaripur after receiving first-aid.
Our Comilla correspondent reports, two covered vans were torched by the alleged pro-blockaders in the district on Thursday night.
Witnesses said some youths set afire a moving covered van at the Cheora-Batisa area under Chouddogram upazila in the district around 9:45pm.
Some youths torched another van in front of Royel Hostel at Batisa about 8:45am. No one was injured in the incidents, they said.
Our Khulna correspondent reports, miscreants blasted bombs in front of Khulna range’s Deputy Inspector General (DIG) SM Moniruzzaman’s residence in the city around 10pm, Thursday. Within half an hour eight more crude bombs went off in different places of Khulna.
Our Gazipur correspondent reports, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two youths Monir Hossain, 28, and Sagor Mia, 20, in possession of 13 petrol bombs and five rounds of bullets in the district.
The elite force identified Monir as a Jubo Dal activist and Sagor as an electrical shop worker. They made petrol bombs on contract and detonated them in exchange of money.
Our Chandpur correspondent reports, police arrested 23 BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists for their alleged involvement in subversive activities in the district.
