Vehicles damaged in Chittagong Jamaat’s hartal

An activist from a procession of Jamaat-e-Islami and pro-Jamaat student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir vandalises a truck in Chittagong city’s Laldighi area during Jamaat’s dawn-to-dusk hartal yesterday protesting the recent murders of a leader and an activist. Photo: Star

Jamaat-e-Islami and pro-Jamaat student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir activists torched at least four vehicles, vandalised three and blasted several cocktails in Chittagong city during Jamaat’s dawn-to-dusk hartal in Chittagong district yesterday protesting recent murders of a leader and an activist.
Examinees, especially those sitting the primary terminal examinations, which was left out of the hartal’s purview, had a hard time reaching the exam centres due to the sparse presence of public transport.
Bringing out a flash procession, the activists set ablaze two battery-run three wheelers and two CNG-run auto-rickshaws and exploded two cocktails on seeing police at Chittagong city’s No-2 Gate area around 8:45am, said police.
They also vandalised three CNG-run auto-rickshaws at Jail Road and detonated two cocktails at Baluchhara around 9:00am, added police. No inter-district bus plied but train services ran.
The activist, Jashim Uddin, of Shayerkhali union in Chittagong’s Mirsarai upazila succumbed to his injuries on November 23, five hours after being beaten with sticks by unidentified miscreants in Shayerkhali’s Samiti Bazar around 10:00pm.
Aminul Islam, general secretary of Sitakunda’s Barabkunda union unit, was found dead with bullet wounds in the head by the road in Sitakunda’s Ponthichila on November 20 after allegedly being picked up by detectives three days ago.