DHAKA: The hartal in Dhaka and Khulna divisions called by 20-party alliance for Wednesday and Thursday marked amid vandalism, arson and violence.

Besides, Thursday is the seventeenth day of nationwide road-rail-waterway blockade enforced by the 20-party alliance.

Though there was not a plenty of picketers on the road but the divisions had to experience several cocktails blast, arson attack, vandalism and subversive acts.

The law enforcement agencies were seen in an alert position and patrolling in these divisions to keep the law and order under control.

However, several vehicles were torched and vandalized by the hartal supporters in Dhaka and Khulna divisions.

The law enforcers nabbed a good number of miscreants in these two days in this connection. Moreover, five leaders of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student affiliate of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, have been detained from city’s Mohakhali area on Wednesday with 130 pieces of cocktails and huge cocktail-making explosives.

However, the BNP-led 20-party alliance announced dawn-to-dusk shutdown in Dhaka and Khulna divisions for Wednesday and Thursday protesting the incidents of extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances and arrest of its leaders.

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) also called hartal for Wednesday and Thursday in Dhaka and strike at all educational institutions across the country for the two days protesting the killings, forced disappearances, abduction and arrest of its leaders by the government, said a press release signed by JCD president Rajib Ahsan and General Secretary Akramul Hasan on Tuesday.

Local units of BNP in Sylhet division, Kushtia, Jhenidah JCD, Chuadanga BNP and Narail Jamaat also called hartal for Wednesday and Thursday.

BDST: 2109 HRS, JAN 22, 2015