Shibir strike on

One private car was burned down in Dhaka’s Azimpur area at the start of the Islami Chhatra Shibir daylong nationwide strike on Wednesday.

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Beside this incident, life in the capital was so far peaceful, though very few private vehicles plying on streets.

A Milk Vita van, out on regular supply of milk, was set on fire around 4:30am, more than an hour ahead of the scheduled start to the strike, Lalbagh Police Station OC Nurul Muttakin said.

Fire Service and Civil Defence Control Room official Farhaduzzaman told bdnews24.com that the car was largely gutted before fire-fighters arrived to douse the flames.

Police blamed strikers for the violence. But no one was nabbed.

Meanwhile, reports of a few pro-strike processions came in from a few areas.

Public buses were plying on Dhaka streets. Authorities said trains and launches were running as usual.

The shutdown was called protesting the arrest of Shibir’s President Delwar Hussen and demanding the whereabouts of the other Shibir leaders “gone missing”.

The Shibir chief was nabbed in March over a strike-related violence case and has been on police remand several times.

Shibir says that Hussen was being tortured by the police and many other leaders have been picked up from other campus locations, whose whereabouts were not known.

Islami Chhatra Shibir is the student affiliate of Jamaat-e-Islami.

Source: bdnews24