UZ chairman hurt in Khulna bomb attack
Three persons including an upazila chairman were injured in a bomb attack in front of Police Training Centre in the city yesterday.
Sarder Alauddin Mithu, chairman of Phultala upazila parishad, is also general secretary of the upazila unit BNP.
The other injured are Shamim, driver of his car, and Jubo Dal activist Siraj Morol.
All three were admitted to Phultala Upazila Health Complex with head injuries. They were said to be in critical condition.
The chairman came under the attack at around 5:00pm when he was returning to Phultala after attending a division-level conference of BNP at Zia Hall under Sonadanga.
At least six bombs were hurled and several shots fired at his car, said witnesses.
Khanjahan Ali police with the help of BNP workers caught one person and seized a gun from his possession.
Police sources said the arrestee, Alam Sheikh, 30, of Rupsha upazila, is an operative of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party.
Incensed at the attack, locals put up barricades at several points on Khulna-Jessore highway, disrupting vehicular movement for several hours.
Besides police, Rapid Action Battalion and Armed Police Battalion were deployed at Shiromoni and Phultala upazila.
The chairman's father, Sarder Abul Kashem, was gunned down and killed by extremists on July 22, 1998.
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