Hartal Action

(Clockwise from top left) An unusually empty Gulshan 2 crossing in the capital at 1:00pm yesterday during the dawn-to-dusk hartal called by the BNP-led 18-party alliance. BNP brings out a procession at Noor Ahmed Sarak in Chittagong city. Police divert traffic away from Abdul Gani Road in the capital as part of the strengthened security measures taken after two homemade bombs exploded in the adjoining Secretariat during Sunday's hartal. A member of Rapid Action Battalion grabs a man suspected of exploding a homemade bomb minutes earlier at Mouchak. Smoke rises from an explosion of a homemade bomb thrown from a procession (not in picture) of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal at Kamalapur.Photo: STAR