Blockade underway for day-2

The second day of the nationwide 72-hour road-rail-waterway blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, is underway under a minimum supervision of the law enforcers.

The whole city except BNP’s Naya Paltan central office area has not had a noticeable patrolling by the law enforcers lately. However, a very few passenger buses departed from Saidabad and Gabtoli bus terminals from 12:00 am to 6:00 am. Other vehicles were hardly seen to ply on the road. Moreover rail communications on Dhaka-Rajshahi came to a halt from 2:15am Sunday as picketers removed some fishplates of rail tracks in Nondongachhi area near to Sarda station. Besides, activists of Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, blasted 13 cocktails and locked into clashes with law enforcers in city’s Khilgaon and Khilkhet areas between 7:50 am and 8:00am Sunday. 1st day’s blockade violence Five people including an activist of Chhatra Shibir, an activist of Jubo Dal and three pedestrians were killed in separate violence in Dhaka, Jhenidah, Pabna, Chittagong and Bogra on Saturday, the first day of 72-hour blockade.