Arson attack, train derailment mark countrywide blockade

New Age Online

The fifth day of non-stop road, rail and waterways blockade sponsored by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance across the country began with arson attack and sabotage in railway on Saturday.The nationwide blockade was announced by the besieged BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday for holding back BNP-led alliance’s planned ‘Democracy Killing Day’ public rally on the same day.In the capital, a person was injured as miscreants set a bus on fire in front of Tejgaon Mahila College in Farmgate area around 7:30am.The victim Amulya Barman, 45, was a rickshaw-puller by profession.He was admitted to the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.His face, both hands and others parts of body were partially burnt, our correspondent reported.In Comilla, the miscreants cut a 3-feet rail and unscrewed fishplates of a track at Betagaon in Nangalkot upazila that caused a train to derail interrupting train communications between Dhaka-Chittagong and Chittagong- Sylhet.

Our Comilla correspondent reported that one coach along with the locomotive of the Chittagong-bound Mahanagar Godhuli that had started from Dhaka veered off the track in the area around 5:30am leaving the riders in acute suffering.No casualty was reported in the accident.The blockaders are responsible for the accident, witnesses said.A salvage train from Laksham junction reached the spot around 9:00am.The Chittagong-bound Chittagong Mail from Dhaka got stranded at Comilla station, said Md Shafiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, the station master.

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