Four people, including three family members sustained splinter injuries when miscreants hurled a crude bomb at their CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Sylhet city yesterday afternoon.
The injured are Mahbubur Rahman of Chhatak upazila in Sunamganj, his daughter Nafisa, 8, and 18-month-old son Hafizur Rahman. The auto-rickshaw driver was also injured.
Unidentified miscreants had targeted the auto rickshaw in Mirer Maidan around 1pm.
The children were admitted to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital while the others were given primary treatment, said Additional Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police Mohammad Rahamatullah.
Three buses were also torched in Dhaka and in Gazipur. Miscreants set fire to a Turag Paribahan bus at Badda around 4:50pm, Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters officials said. Four hours earlier, miscreants had torched a passenger bus at the Gazipur intersection. Another bus was set afire by unidentified pickets at Chandra intersection around 4:30am. However, no one was injured.
In Bogra town, a bus and a truck were torched in Shibganj upazila. Cattle trader Abdul Kader was burnt, and truck driver Selim Mia sustained injuries in the latter attack. Both were taken to a hospital.
Selim Mia was headed to Dhaka with cattle in his truck. Around 3am at Pakurtola, miscreants hurled brick bats at the truck. When the driver slowed down, the pickets threw a petrol bomb inside the driver’s cabin. Selim jumped out, but Kader was stuck and sustained burns. The miscreants beat Selim when he got off the vehicle.
In Bogra town’s Thonthonia Coach Terminal, miscreants torched a Bablu Paribahan bus in the morning. Witnesses said they blasted three crude bombs and then torched the standing bus.
In Narayanganj, around 11pm on Sunday, miscreants torched two compartments of the 238 Down Train at Narayanganj Railway Station after passengers had departed. The train was set to head to Dhaka after an hour, said OC of Sadar PS Manjur Kader.
In Chuadanga, police recovered 10 kerosene bombs, where kerosene was used as fuel instead of petrol.
“They looked like petrol bombs and had splinters in it. Upon being informed, we recovered them from Machherdari last night,” said Kamruzzaman, Inspector (Investigation) of Chuadanga Sadar Police Station.
In Chittagong, one person received splinter injuries when pro-hartal activists hurled a crude bomb on a mini-bus in the Andarkillah area, while a bus was set alight by miscreants in Chandgaon yesterday.
Police, in an overnight drive, arrested 19 BNP-Jamaat-Shibir members, including Chittagong Medical College (CMC)’s Shibir president and general secretary for their alleged connection in the sabotage, said police sources.
The injured in the Andarkillah blast is Nasir Uddin, 56, son of late Mofijur Rahman, an Islami Bank colony resident of Chawkbazar, said Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) Police Outpost Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Pankaj Barua.
ASI Pankaj said hartal supporters pelted a crude bomb on a Route 1 mini-bus at Didar market in Andarkillah under Kotwali police station, at around 1pm.
In Pirojpur’s Vandaria, miscreants torched a stationed bus at around 1am.
In Barisal city, pickets set fire to tires, and tried to block a road in Ward-29. Police arrested BNP activists Mansur Majhi, Khasru Haoladar, and Jahanur Hossain from Kashipur in this connection, said Barisal Airport police station Officer in-Charge Shaheduzzaman.
In Dhaka, police conducted raids and detained 27 BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir activists, suspected of criminal activities, police said.
Police also arrested BNP activist Kalim Hossain, 50, and recovered five petrol bombs from Nandail of Keraniganj on the outskirts of Dhaka.
The police had conducted a drive in Kalim’s three-storey building around 8:30am, and recovered the bombs from a ground floor room.
Sub-Inspector of Keraniganj Model Police Station Shah Alam confirmed the incident.
Barring these, the situation was normal in the capital. Law enforcers were deployed at important points. Rail and launch movements were almost normal, though no inter-city buses left Dhaka after evening.
