Hartal underway in 8-upazila, 3-dist

The hartal and 72-hour blockade is underway simultaneously, called by BNP-led 18-party alliance, in Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, five upazilas of Sylhet, two upazilas of Jhenidah, one upazila of Laxmipur and Dinajpur districts on Sunday.

Banglanews Chittagong bureau reports: The hartal and blockade is underway amid cocktails blast, vandalism, possession chase and counter chase between the picketers and law enforcers in the port city. Police, however, nabbed three picketers from the sport. Confirming the matter, Chandgaon Thana Officer-in-Charge Syed Abdur Rauf said that additional law enforcers were deployed to avoid unwanted situation in the city. Our Sylhet correspondent reports: In the second day of 72-hour blockade, a daylong hartal is being observed in five upazilas of the district. The upazilas are--- Companiganj, Gowainghat, Jaintiapur, South Surma and Gopalganj. The vehicles movement was hardly seen in these areas. However, there was no violence in the area regarding this issue. Banglanews Dinajpur correspondent reports: The Daylong hartal is underway in Dinajpur as well on Sunday. The vehicles movement was halted and the shops remained shut in jail road area of the district town in the morning. A possession was brought out led by district BNP president Lutfar Rahman Mintu at around 7:00am and set fire on roads. In LAXMIPUR, the daylong hartal, called by Ramganj upazila unit Juba Dal, is underway in the upazila on Sunday. The alliance is enforcing the shutdown protesting the killing of a Juba Dal leader M Munir Hossain. Earlier on Friday, miscreants kidnapped Munir Hossain, 35, and then killed him brutally. The president of upazila Juba Dal Giash Uddin Polash told banglanews that all front and associate organizations of BNP extended their supported in the hartal. In Cox’s Bazar, the dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by BNP, is progressing in the district peacefully. In Jhenidah, the dawn-to-dusk shutdown, called by BNP-led 18-party alliance, is underway in Kotchandpur and Moheshpur upazilas amid stray incidents of picketing.