An eight-year-old newspaper hawker has received injuries in a crude bomb blast in the capital's Mirpur Original 10 intersection.
The ill-fated boy, Suman, sustained the injuries when unidentified miscreants exploded two crude bombs on the street around 3:30pm, said on-duty police official Abdur Rashid.
The locals rescued the injured boy from the spot immediately after the incident and admitted him to the Institute of Child Health Hospital in the area.
Now-a-days exploding crude bombs in public places, especially on the streets has become 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.
The blockade has been celled 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.”
The relaxed blockade is underway across the country amid sporadic incidents of violence, arson attacks, vandalism and arrests of BNP members.
