Pickets set fire to 14 vehicles in different places of the country yesterday as the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s shutdown continued.
At least six people were injured in these incidents; an upazila land office was also attacked.
Nine vehicles were torched in Chapainawabganj, when pickets set ablaze stationed trucks at a terminal in Sonamasjid area around midnight. None were injured in the incident.
Four people were injured in Panchagarh when a BRTC bus and a truck were vandalised before being set ablaze. Officials at Boda police station said injured Al Amin, Lalon, Suman, Shakhawat were sleeping inside the vehicles when the attack took place around 4am.
In Chittagong’s Hathazari upazila, an autorickshaw driver and his passenger suffered burn injuries when pickets hurled a petrol bomb at the vehicle at around 10:30pm.
In the capital’s Jurain, a bus was torched an hour after dusk.
The RAB recovered 15 crude bombs from Rajshahi’s Kharkhari Bypass road, when a group of four to five youths abandoned the explosives after being approached by a patrol team.
In Moulvibazar, miscreants set fire to a bus in Bhobanigaon bus stand area of Juri upazila around midnight.
The Upazila Land Office in Lakhsmipur was set on fire around 4am. Documents were burned in the incident.
Meanwhile, the BGB recovered five petrol bombs left unattended in a Dhaka-bound mail train waiting at the Chittagong Rail Station.
