2 crackers explode near Khaleda's office
Two crackers exploded in front of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office late last night.
The leader of the opposition was inside at the time.
Minutes after the blasts at 10:10pm, patrol police arrested a youth named Pradip Saha on a nearby alley.
They claimed Pradip is an activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student body associated with BNP.
Abdul Hamid Paban, 37, younger son of BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain, was injured in the blasts, BNP leaders told The Daily Star.
He was talking to his friends outside the office, they added.
Meanwhile, doctors at the United Hospital where Paban was undergoing treatment said he did not sustain any external injury.
"He was admitted to the hospital with chest pain," said a doctor who would not be identified.
AKM Hafiz Akhtar, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Gulshan zone), said, "Pradip was arrested while fleeing the scene on a motorcycle."
Mohit and Murad, police constables who were on duty in front of the Gulshan office, told The Daily Star that the cocktails were thrown from a red jeep flanked by two motorcycles.
"Moments after the first cracker exploded, we saw another flying off the jeep. The second one landed near me and Paban," said Murad.
In a statement, BNP Joint Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir condemned the incident and announced a protest rally for today in front of the party headquarters at Naya Paltan.
Earlier on February 15, police found two crackers near Khaleda's Gulshan office.
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