The 60-hour countrywide shutdown, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance on Monday to force the government for arranging the next polls under a non-partisan administration, entered the third and concluding day today (Wednesday).
The three-day strike will end at 6pm today.
At least two people were killed on Monday in hartal violence.
On Tuesday, at least 30 vehicles were damaged, over 150 crude bombs blasted and around 250 people, including six cops, were injured across the country. The law enforcers also arrested over 70 people during the second day of hartal.
Besides, violent incidents like vandalising and torching of vehicles, clashes between hartal pickets and police and ruling party activists, arrest of opposition leaders and activists and crude bomb blasts were also reported from a number of districts, including from Laxmipur, Rajshahi, Bogra, Satkhira, Chittagong, Comilla, Narayanganj, Sunamganj, Sirajganj, Munshiganj and Khulna.
Huge law enforcers have been guarding the city streets since Monday morning to fend off any untoward incident. A large number of law enforcers were deployed in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, too.
Earlier, the opposition alliance enforced another 60-hour countrywide shutdown from 6amon October 27 that ended amid widespread violent clashes, vandalism, arson attacks and crude bomb blasts, leaving 18 people dead and over 7,000 people injured across the country.
Source: UNBConnect
