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| 2 'JCD men' held over Shahbagh bus torching |
| 2013-12-08 |
[Bangla Daily Star] Detectives yesterday enjuggedDrop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! two people for their alleged involvement in torching a bus in the capital's Shahbagh 10 days ago, that left three passengers dead and 16 injured. After primary interrogation of the arrestees, police identified the two as Uzzal Hossain, 26, president of the ward-70 unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal ...student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)... (JCD), and its activist Sohel Chan Milon, 28, DB Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam told newsmen at a presser at the Media Centre of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Mintoo Road. A Dhaka court placed each of the "JCD men" on a three-day remand for further quizzing, said another official of Detective Branch of police. Uzzal was arrested in the capital's Shantinagar, while Sohel in Bangshal. On November 28 evening, unidentified myrmidons hurled a petrol bomb on a Mirpur-bound bus of Bihanga Paribahan near the Shishu Park in Shahbagh. A 71-hour blockade of roads, rail and waterways by the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance ended at 5:00am the following day. Caught on fire, driver Mahbub Hasan lost control of the steering and the bus, carrying about 50 passengers, hit the road divider. Most of the passengers jumped out of the vehicle through windows. Quoting the arrestees, DB official Monirul Islam said some seven to eight myrmidons gathered at the Suhrawardy Udyan in the afternoon on that fateful day. After the Maghrib prayers, the group took position on the footpath and the road divider. As the bus approached them, myrmidons tried to stop it and blasted a petrol bomb on the windowpane of the driver's side and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. Uzzal and Sohel, along with a few others of the gang, had been carrying out such acts of sabotage on instructions of their big shots, mentioned Monirul. Led by Uzzal, a group of eight to 10 people carried out such attacks in different parts of the capital, including Bangshal, Kotwali, Sutrapur, Paltan, Motijheel, Ramna and Shahbagh, over the last few months, he added. The Daily Star could not independently verify the accounts of the two arrestees. Earlier, law enforcers arrested BNP Vice-president Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed for their alleged involvement in the November 28 arson. Police on the same day had filed a case against 16 opposition leaders, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, for torching the bus. Fakhrul, however, blamed government agencies and ruling Awami League men for the attack. |
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