DHAKA NEWS
Four vehicles were torched in different parts of the capital yesterday on the eve of two back-to-back shutdowns called by the BNP-led 18-party alliance protesting the disappearance of former lawmaker M Ilias Ali.
Police said a group of four to five youths set fire to a bus of Gazipur-Azimpur route after pouring petrol on it at New Market intersection yesterday around 4:00pm.
AKM Azizul Haque, officer-in-charge of Lalbagh Police Station, told , the passengers rushed out of the bus and no injuries were reported.
A microbus was set ablaze in Fakirapool area around 7:00pm, said Kazi Abdullah Al Mahmood, an assistant sub-inspector of Paltan Police Station. It could not be known who carried out the arson.
Fire service sources said another microbus was set afire near Shewrapara bus stop around 8:45pm.
Some unidentified persons set fire to a taxi cab near Mirpur Ansar Camp around 9:10pm.
The main opposition BNP yesterday afternoon called the countrywide hartal for today and tomorrow.
Earlier on Tuesday, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia issued a four-day ultimatum to the government to locate Ilias Ali and his driver, or her party would go for tougher agitation.
Ilias Ali, an organising secretary of the party, along with the driver has been out of trace since early hours of April 18.
Alleging that one of the government agencies picked him up, BNP enforced dawn-to-dusk hartals on April 22, 23 and 24.
Meanwhile, the Dhaka district administration deployed 10 mobile courts across the city from yesterday evening to check violence before and during the shutdowns.
Ten mobile courts headed by executive magistrates have started their work at 6:00pm, Muhibul Haque, deputy commissioner of Dhaka district, said.
Shahbag police said some miscreants around 7:00pm yesterday tried to torch a staff bus of Jahangirnagar University in front of the Shishu Park. The passengers of the bus caught one the miscreants and handed him over to police.
Later a mobile court sentenced him to a term in jail for three months.
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