The 48-hour countrywide hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, entered the second day today (Thursday).
The first day of the shutdown was marked by killing of an auto-rickshaw driver, stray incidents of vandalism, bomb blasts and clashes across the country on Wednesday.
The shutdown, called by the Islamist party demanding the release of its top leaders and protesting the death sentence to its assistant secretary general Quader Mollah, will continue till 6am Friday.
On the first day of the hartal, at least 35, vehicles were damaged, 40 crude bombs blasted and 30 people were injured across the country. The law enforcers also arrested over 50 Jamaat-Shibir men during the period.
Jamaat-e-Islami called the countrywide 48-hour hartal on Tuesday demanding the release of its top leaders and protesting the death sentence to its assistant secretary general Quader Mollah.
Allowing the government’s appeal seeking death sentence for Abdul Quader Mollah, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that the Jamaat leader be hanged for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
Source: UNBConnect
