Pro-hartal elements torched at least six vehicles at different places of the city on Sunday, ahead of Monday’s countrywide daylong hartal called by Hefajat-e-Ialam.
Witnesses said a bus was set afire at Kakrail crossing around 5:20 pm while another in front of Rajarbagh Police Lines at the same time.
The hartal supporters set a bus ablaze near Basabo Buddhist Temple at about 5:35 pm and another near Bangladesh Bank at Motijheel around 5:31 pm.
Another bus was set on fire front of Mogda Petrol Pump at about 5:47 pm while a jeep near BTV Bhaban in Rampura at about 6:16 pm.
Police said the vehicles were torched in a bid to create panic among the city dwellers ahead of the shutdown to be enforced by the Islamists’ platform.
Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Saturday called the daylong countrywide hartal for Monday protesting the government obstruction to its long march programme and repression of its activists on their way to Dhaka.
Source: UNBConnect
