Relatives of Suvash Shom, 56, cry after the trader of Chittagong died at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday. Twenty-five percent of his body was burnt after alleged pickets firebombed the bus he was travelling in at Tiger Pass of Chittagong on February 19. Photo: Banglar Chokh Panicked by a crude bomb attack on a bus, a man jumped to his death from the roof of the moving veh
icle in Joypurhat yesterday. Another victim of a petrol bomb attack died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, raising the death toll of the blockade violence to 84, which began on January 6. In Chittagong, Detective Branch of Police in a drive held Nayeb-e-Ameer of Jamaat city unit Ahsanullah Chowdhury early yesterday. Ujjal, 30, son of Bhupen Chandra of Chitrapara in Joypurhat town, was going to Bogra from Joypurhat on the roof of the bus, reports our correspondent in Dinajpur. When the bus reached Karimpur on Joypurhat-Bogra highway, some six people on two motorbikes exploded two crude bombs aiming at the bus. Ujjal jumped off the bus and received severe head injuries. Locals rushed him to Joypurhat Modern Hospital where he died around 7.00pm yesterday, police said. Advertisement Arson victim Suvash Shom, 56, died at the burn unit of DMCH around noon yesterday. He suffered burns after alleged pickets firebombed the minibus he was travelling in at Tiger Pass of Chittagong city in the wee hours of February 19. The small trader of Double Mooring area had 25 percent of his body burnt. No other major incidents of violence were reported on the first day of the 72-hour hartal enforced since yesterday morning. The BNP-led alliance's indefinite countrywide blockade has been on since January 6 and hartals on all working days since February 1. One person was shot allegedly by police when he tried to hurl a crude bomb at a vehicle in Dhalpur in the capital around 7:00pm, sources said. Student Abdullah Al Mamun, 20, was being treated at DMCH. Cement shop salesman Mithu, 24, was injured when a homemade bomb went off in Azimpur as he was going home yesterday evening. He too was being treated at DMCH. Rapid Action Battalion in separate drives arrested three people and seized 58 crude bombs, 48 petrol bombs, one pipe bomb, and 500 grams of explosives from their possession in Ramna and Sutrapur areas early yesterday. They also seized a bicycle which had its frame filled with explosives, said a Rab press release. A team of Rab-2 raided Ramna area and arrested Rakibul Islam, 25, around 1:45am. On Rakib's information, they conducted another drive in a house in Kalta Bazar area of Sutrapur where they recovered the items and arrested Aminur Islam Rana, 30, and Reazul Islam, 22, the release added. Shahbagh police yesterday detained four suspects in connection with vandalising a number of vehicles on Topkhana Road in the afternoon. A union land office was set on fire in Munshiganj early yesterday and there were arrests of BNP and Jamaat activists and recovery of explosives. Criminals set fire to the land office of Shologhar union in Srinagar upazila of Munshiganj, burning its door and window partially, said Sheikh Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Srinagar Police Station. Important documents of the office were safe as locals doused the fire immediately, he said. In Tangail, police recovered nine abandoned petrol bombs and three crude bombs from a carton hidden in a pile of straw in Phoolmalir Chala village of Ghatail around 11:00am yesterday. Mokhlesur Rahman, OC of Ghatail Police Station, said locals informed them about the matter and that none was arrested in this connection. In Rangpur, police arrested five activists of BNP and Jamaat at Mithapukur, Pirgachha and in Rangpur town yesterday and late Saturday night in connection with their alleged involvement in subversive activities.
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