DHAKA: The second-day hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, protesting its two leaders’ death sentence, is underway across the country on Thursday amid sporadic violence.

Sources told banglanews that the members of Chhatra Shibir, student affiliate of Jamaat, brought out processions at different places of the capital and blasted several cocktails there at the early hours of the strike.

According to the sources, Shibir leaders and activists brought out a sudden procession at Khilgaon Taltala area of the city in the morning.

Witnesses said that the procession was brought out at around 7:30am under the banner of Dhaka (East) city committee of Shibir.

Dhaka (East) Shibir secretary M Shamim, organizational secretary Shariful Islam, finance affairs secretary Tojameel Haque, office secretary Sohel Rana Mintu and publicity secretary Abdul Kader along with others participated in the procession led by Dhaka (East) Shibir president Riazul Haque Riaz.

Later, according to the witnesses, the Shibir leaders and activists somehow managed to escape the spot before police rushed there.

Earlier, a group of Shibir activists brought out another procession and hurled cocktails at Chawkbazar in old part of the city.

Locals said that the Chawkbazar Thana Shibir unit president Helal Uddin lead the procession.

Nevertheless, the 48-hour hartal, which has begun from Wednesday morning, will end at 6:00am Friday.

Earlier, a 60-hour countrywide shutdown, which was marked in two phases, protesting the death sentence of Jamaat ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami for his war crimes, ended on Monday evening.

** Jamaat’s hartal enters 2nd day

BDST: 1005 HRS, NOV 06, 2014