At least three people were killed and 200 others injured in clashes among Hefajat men, Awami League activists and police in the city’s Bangabandhu Avenue and other areas on Sunday.
A DC traffic office, two police boxes and 68 vehicles were also torched by miscreants.
Panic gripped the city dwellers as violence escalated amid the Hefajat grand rally being staged at the city’s Shapla Chattar following its April 6 massive showdown at the same venue.
After the miscreants went on the rampage, vehicles almost disappeared from the city’s bustling streets. Many were seen walking back home on foot.
One of the deceased was identified as Siddiqur Rahman Siddique, 28, helper of a bus of ‘Hanif Paribahan’. The others, including a Hefajat man, could not be identified yet.
Witnesses said the clash between the Awami League and Hefajat men broke out in Baitul Mukarram area around 1:30pm when they brought separate processions in the area.
A chase and counter-chase broke out between the workers of the two organisations as they brought out their processions.
Police fired several hundred gunshots and 12 teargas shells to bring the situation under control.
Helper Siddique, injured in the firing, was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared him dead. The two others also succumbed to their injuries at the DMCH.
The injured were admitted to different hospitals and private clinics.
Another triangular clash involving police, the Hefajat workers and the ruling party men broke out at the same place at 3pm and later it spilled over into Purana Paltan, Gulistan, Bijoynagar, Kakrail and Press Club areas.
A group of people vandalised Rangs Bhaban at Purana Paltan and set KFC food court, CPB central party office and several roadside book shops near the CPB office on fire during the clashes.
A DC traffic office, two police boxes and 68 vehicles were also torched by miscreants, said witnesses and Fire Service sources.
Witnesses said miscreants set fire to a police box at Shantinagar around 6:20 pm while another at Mouchak at about 6:25 pm.
At least 30 vehicles parked in front of the Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation were set alight by the miscreants around 5pm.
A police Pajero jeep was set afire at Mouchak around 6:25 pm while a bus and a bulldozer at Malibagh crossing around 6:20 pm.
At least 20 vehicles were set alight around the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the evening.
Seven BRTC buses and two private buses were torched in Malibagh rail crossing area in the evening.
A vehicle was torched in front of BG Press at Mohakhali.
A gas pipeline near the Bangabandhu National stadium was set afire around 4:45pm.
The DC traffic office (East Zone) in Purana Paltan was also torched during the clashes at the same time.
At about 5:30pm, 15 people, including 10 cops, were injured in a clash between police and the Hefajat workers near Nayabazar in the city.
Meanwhile, seven people, including a Rab member, were hurt in separate clashes between law enforcers and workers of Hefajat-e-Islam in the city earlier on Sunday.
Three vehicles, including two police bikes, were also torched allegedly by the Hefajat activists during the clashes.
Three people, including Rab member Golam Rabbani, were injured in a clash between the Hefajat activists and law enforces near Motijheel Hockey Stadium at about 10:30am.
Witnesses said the Hefajat activists torched a bus of the Paribahan in the area at about 10:30am, injuring two workers of the bus. Rab member Golam Rabbani was injured when a group of law enforces came under attack by the Hefejat men as they went to resist the activists during the attack on the bus.
In another incident, two police bikes were torched near the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque as the Hefajat men in a procession were marching towards the Shapla Chattar in the capital at about 12:30pm.
Witnesses said hundreds of activists of the organization were marching towards the Shapla Chattar to attend a rally there. When they were passing by the National Mosque, police obstructed them.
Being obstructed, the Hefajat activists threw brick chips targeting police, resulting in a clash between them.
The law enforces fired several teargas shells and fired several rubber bullets to disperse them.
A chase and counter-chase took place that left some people injured.
At one stage, the Hefajat activists torched two police bikes.
Source: UNBConnect
BANGLADESHI MEDIA, FRIGHTEND OF THE GOVERNMENT AFTER THE JAILING OF THE EDITOR OF AMARDESH, MR MAHMUDUR RAHMAN AND CLOSING THE OFFICE OF HIS DALY AND TAKING AWAY ALL THE ELECTRONIC GEARS FROM THE OFFICE THAT RELATED TO THE NEWSPAPER. BEFORE MEDIA PERSONALITIES WERE MURDERED IN BANGLADESH AND NONE WAS TRIED FOR THE KILLINGS. A FEAR EXISTS IN THE MIND OF INDEPENDENT, IMPARTIAL BANGLADESHI MEDIA.
Bangladeshi news media expressed their inability to publish the following comments from Al-Hilal though majority of the Bangladeshi media (both English & Bengali) printed them:
HALF EDUCATED, FRAUDULENT, SO CALLED SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM LEADER, AGNOSTIC MR INU ABUSED ISLAMIC SCHOLARS REBUKING THEM WHY THEY INDULGE IN POLITICS. THEY SHOULD REMAIN CONFINED IN THEIR MOSQUES & LEAVE THE APOSTATES ALONE TO ROAM”. This vehemently anti-Islamic agnostic person has not got the requisite educational ability to comprehend that ISLAM DOES NOT ISOLATE ONE HUMAN FACULTY FROM OTHER, RATHER IT COMBINES THEM ALL TOGETHER. IN WESTERN POLITICAL JARGON THIS IS CALLED “PLURALISM”. Because of this reason the arbitrary orbit of the atheists, agnostics, socialists, communists dictatorial, authoritative regime/people/group of people have been curtailed. And they detest it very much. What a pity, AS ILL LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, we have such an ignorant person imposed on us as information minister! Hasina has no Tractor, horse, buffalo, or cow to plough the rough political Bengali terrain but only goat and sheep!
GENERAL ERSHAD IS A NATIONAL ASSET!
Hearty congratulation to Gen HM Ershad the most successful long lasting president who had safeguarded our national independence by declaring our country’s STATE RELIGION AS ISLAM without showing any fear or favour to anybody. This was a democratic decision.
Muslims in Bangladesh would ever remain thankful to him for his such sagacious, prudent, wise and courageous patriotic act. J.P MUST re-join the 18 party alliances and form a 19 party coalition GOVERNMENT. That would represent country’s 73% of the electorate. And he should again be the president of the future 19 party coalition.
Deleting on ADVISERS ADVICE the sentence from our constitution that read “ WE TRUST IN ALLAH & DEPEND ON HIM” Hasina has deleted her name from Bangla politics. It was criminal, wicket to explain away that “BISMILLAH IS THERE IN THE CONSTITUTION SO THERE IS NO NEED FOR THE DELETED SENTENCE!” She then insulted the Muslims by conferring the highest Islamic title “SHAHID” on an apostate going to his home personally. (2)
CHARLATAN HASINA’S “SUNNATI” AWAMI ULEMA LEAGUE!
Why not the Hasina created Awami Ulema League (1) Condemn the erection of human statues, garlanding them sprinkling GOLABJOL (Ganges Water)? (2) Why they do not ask Hasina, the queen of Termites to withdraw the title of SHAHID she conferred on the dead apostate going to his house personally , at least to show she cares for Islam as she cares for all other creeds?
Do the Ulema League believe ” SOVEREIGNTY BELONGS TO ALLAH or to the ” SHUMOHAN” PARLIAMENT? Is it not polytheism to believe in the later?
Today the banner of Islam is not in the hands of half educated, poor village Mullahs but in the hands of Muslim Muslima who are the best products of best western university and they have achieved mastery in every known human faculties. Hence the cry of Armageddon from the adversaries of the Muslims. (3)—-
AFTER HASINA’S BIRANI NOW THE SEX-PERVERT APOSTATES BLOGGERS, SHE RE-NASMED “ (TORUN PRO-JONMO)” WANT THEIR “NASTA”(BREAKFAST)!
After getting BIRANI from Hasina the apostate bloggers in Shahbagh want now to “ EAT NASTA IN THE MORNING & EVENING WITH THE CHOPPED HEAD OF THE HANGED WAR CRIMINALS”. When vindictive Hasina is going to provide
“ONLY NON BENGALI AREA OF OUR SYLHET MIGHT GET OUT OF BANGLADESH NOW RUNNING BY THE APOSTATES BENGALIS IF THEY DO NOT MEET THE 13 POINTS DEMAND OF HIFAJAT-E-ISLAM. SYLHET LEFT ITS PREVILIGED POSITION IN INDIA IN 1947 & JOINED MUSLIM EAST BENGAL AFTER A REFERENDUM FOR THE REASON OF ISLAM. BY DECLARING WAR AGAINST ISLAM CURRENT BENGALI APOSTATE RULERS HAVE NEGATED SYLHET’S REFERENDUM DECISION & ACCESSION INTO EAST BENGAL”.- Moulana Hafez Abdul Quddus Jalali
MILLIONS OF AGGRIEVED MUSLIMS HAVE COME TOY DHAKA FROM EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY TO SAVE & PROTECT EVERYTHING THAT IS ISLAMIC,DEAREST TO EVERY MUSLIM’S HEART. THEY HAVE NOT COME TO TAKE OVER POWER, TO KILL OR HARM ANYONE. IT IS OUR TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC DUTY TO FEED THEM, THEY ARE THE GUESTS OF OUR DHAKA PEOPLE”_Leader of the 18 party alliance, Begum Khaleda Zia, twice the elected prime minister.