6 crude bomb attacks in 30 minutes
At least nine people were injured in crude bomb explosions in the capital within a span of half an hour yesterday amid an indefinite nationwide blockade enforced by the BNP-led opposition alliance.
One of the six incidents took place at the Central Shaheed Minar around 4:00pm, injuring four activists of Nababpur upazila Jubo League, an associate body of the ruling Awami League.
Attending an Awami League rally at Suhrawardy Udyan, the Jubo League members -- Hasan, Javed, Aslam and Latif -- were about to board their requisitioned bus parked near the Shaheed Minar when a crude bomb blasted, leaving them injured, said Jalal Uddin, general secretary of the Jubo League unit.
As many as 200 activists of different AL affiliated bodies had come to the capital from Nababpur on six buses to attend the rally, he added.
Blasts took place at Azimpur, Suritola, Tantibazar and Nazirabazar of the old part of the city around 3:30pm, said the injured victims.
With splinters in different parts of their body, they were undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. None of them was, however, critically injured.
Rickshaw-puller Mohammad Samiul, 45, received splinter injuries near Viqarunnisa Noon School at Azimpur. He said he had heard four explosions and got injured in one while passing by with a passenger.
In another incident in the same area, Mahfuza Begum, 30, received wounds in the forehead. She and her daughter were about to get on a rickshaw at the time, said her husband.
“Panic gripped my daughter ever since she heard the blast. She has been crying ceaselessly,” said the concerned father.
Meanwhile, Maria Akter Nipa, 24, was injured in the left leg when a crude bomb blasted near a local school in Suritola.
Abdul Jabbar, 40, received splinter wounds below his knees in Tantibazar. He said two crude bombs had blasted in front of him.
Another rickshaw-puller Mohammad Milon, 32, sustained injuries to the chest and abdomen in Nazirabazar. His condition was bad compared to the other injured, according to DMCH sources.
During a visit to the injured at DMCH yesterday afternoon, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim directed the hospital authorities to bear the treatment expenses of all the blockade victims.
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