72-hr strike continues peacefully on third day.

The third day of the fresh 72-hour nationwide strike, enforced by the BNP-led alliance alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade, is passing off peacefully on Tuesday, reports United News of Bangladesh. The alliance called the shutdown as part of its movement demanding a snap national election under a non-party administration and ‘restoration of democracy and people’s voting right’ and protesting the government’s repressive acts. The shutdown that began at 6:00am on Sunday will end at 6:00am on Wednesday. No procession or picketing was seen in support of the hartal in the city. Presence of motorised vehicles was almost normal on the capital streets. A large number of law enforcers remained deployed in different parts of the capital to fend off any trouble. Earlier on the second day of the shutdown, at least eight people sustained injuries in crude bomb and petrol bomb blasts in the capital and Sylhet district on Monday.

Police arrested 100 leaders and activists of BNP-Jamaat from different places of the capital, Keraniganj of Dhaka, Laxmipur, Gazipur, Khulna and Pabna districts. Besides, miscreants set five vehicles afire in the capital, Gazipur and Bogra districts during the hartal. The law enforces recovered 26 petrol bombs, six crude bombs and bomb-making elements from different places of Chuadanga, Keraniganj of Dhaka, Bogra and Rajshahi districts. BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, on behalf of the alliance, announced the shutdown programme on Friday.

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