Two cars burn after Jamaat Shibir activists set fire to 4 cars and 5 motorcycles in the capital’s Motijheel area today. Photo: Anisur Rahman
Jamaat-Shibir activists torched 12 vehicles, including two motorcycles of police personnel, at different parts of the capital after Juma prayers today.
The activists protesting the execution of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah also torched two offices of Information and Service Centre and garbage maintenance in Motijheel area.
Locals said the activists of Jamaat and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, went berserk setting fire to four private cars and five motorcycles including two of police personnel in Motijheel after the Juma prayer.
Police detained a man from the spot for investigation.
Jamaat-Shibir men also set fire to a bus and a covered van in Malibagh around 2:00pm.
The demonstrators torched a passenger bus in Kamalapur.
The Jamaat restored vandalism and anarchy across the country including the capital a day after Quader Mollah was hanged for his war crimes in 1971.
Soon after the prayers ended, around two hundred Jamaat-Shibir men brought out a procession near Motijheel AGB Colony market, locals said.
And suddenly the activists started setting fire to vehicles kept beside the road around 2:15pm, witnesses said.
Md Alamgir, the driver of a torched private car, said a group of people vandalised and torched his vehicle when he was passing the road.
Alamgir sustained minor injuries.
The agitators also damaged roadside shops on their way into hiding.
Source: The Daily Star