BANGLADESH NEWS
A dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the
arrest of party Assistant Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar ended amid
tight security in Khulna city on Wednesday.
Pro-hartal
activists fought pitched battle with law enforcers at Goalkhali area,
vandalised two buses at Gallamari, a truck at Boyra and two human
haulers at Natun Bazar area in the morning.
They also burnt tyres at different places of the city in support of the shutdown,
The
Detective Branch of police on Monday arrested Golam Parwar also a
former legislator from Khulna-5 constituency from the capital’s Gulshan
area.
Meanwhile, Khulna Metropolitan Police round up 26
Jamaat-Shibir activists from the city’s Goalkhali area on charge of
attacking law enforcers, said Mossaraf Hossain, assistant commissioner
of special branch.
No long-distance buses left and entered
the city since 6:00am while rickshaws and battery run vehicles were seen
plying the streets, and launches and trains had left and arrived at the
stations.
All jute mills, factories in Daulatpur and
Khalishpur industrial belt, educational institutions, banks, insurance
and other businesses remained open as usual.
Though no
procession of the pro-hartal activists were seen in the city, Abul Kalam
Azad, ameer of the Jamaat city unit, claimed that several processions
were brought out in Boyra, Gallamari, Natun Rasta, Goalkhali and Rupsha
areas during the hartal.
Additional forces of police, Rapid
Action Battalion (Rab) and Armed Police Battalion were deployed at
different key points of the city to maintain law and order.
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