Rail track sabotaged in Ctg, hartal, blockade in Dhaka peaceful

Miscreants removed some fishplates of a rail track causing two coaches and its locomotive of Mymensingh Express to derail in Mirsarai upazila of Chittagong early Monday, the second day of the BNP-led alliance’s 72-hour countrywide hartal coincided with non-stop blockade, a TV channel reports. The derailment snapped train services of Chittagong with other parts of the country. In the capital, the number of commuter buses was thin. Rickshaws and Compressed Natural Gas-run auto-rickshaws dominated the city streets. Additional police were deployed in the key points of the city. The alliance on Friday called the shutdown from 6:00am on Sunday to 6:00am Wednesday protesting against the ruling party’s threat to ‘blow out’ the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office and arrest her and the prime minister’s instruction to ‘suppress the movement’ by any means, said a party statement. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia had announced the indefinite blockade on January 5 as the government did not allow her party to hold a protest rally in the capital.

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