2 more blockade victims die
This July 15 Focus Bangla photo shows buses set alight by pickets on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Naryanganj during the hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami.
Two more victims who suffered burn and bullet injuries in Gazipur and Joypurhat during the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance-called countrywide blockade programme died today.
Al-Amin, 28, a bus driver of Savar died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital this morning. He sustained with 25 to 30 percent burn injuries when blockaders set fire to his vehicle on December 3.
On the other hand, Asma Begum Razia, 42, who was hit by bullets during a gunfight between Jamaat-e-Islami and law enforcers in Joypurhat Sunday, died at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital in Bogra around early today.
GAZIPUR
Amin breathed his last around 10:00am at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the burn unit of DMCH, said Mozammel Haque, in-charge of the hospital's police camp.
He was the bus driver of "Colombia" garment factory in Gazipur, the OC said.
Blockaders set his bus alight in front of the garment factory in Colombia area in the city after all staff got down there on December 3, he added.
JOYPURHAT
Razia, who suffered bullet wounds in her abdomen, died at the Bogra hospital around 3:30am, reports our Dinajpur correspondent quoting Saiful Islam, chairman of Puranpoil union
The death toll from the clash hit five with the latest one.
Razia, wife of Abu Saleh of Dastopur village in Joypurhat Sadar upazila, was caught in the gunfight between Jamaat-Shibir activists and law enforcers on Sunday when she was going to Halottibazar on foot.
The gunfight ensued after around a thousand Jamaat-Shibir men encircled patrol team of police, Border Guard Bangladesh and Rapid Action Battalion, who went to Puranpoil area on receiving information that the activists were gathering there to commit subversive activities.
Two Jamaat men -- Shamim Hossain, 24 and Insan Ali, 22, -- died on the spot while a rickshaw-van puller was killed when he came in the line of fire during the gun-battle.
Another bullet-hit Jamaat man Abdur Rahman, 45, succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday.