Horrors Of Road Blockade

1) Awami League activists being bombarded with stones by the BNP-led 18-party alliance activists on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway, near Kanchpur Bridge, yesterday. The AL men were arriving in the capital to face off the opposition's road blockade programme. 2) The AL activists fled, leaving this truck behind. The attackers then set it on fire. 3) Nearby, passengers of this ambulance carrying a corpse are left stranded by the road while stick-wielding AL men pass by. 4) This microbus of Gazi Television was torched by the opposition men in Madartek of the capital. 5) AL activists hammer a man with bamboo sticks who they suspect to be an Islami Chhatra Shibir activist near the bridge. 6) An AL activist openly carries homemade bombs to attack the opposition men. 7) AL men distribute food among anti-blockade activists in the capital's Gabtoli. 8) Close by, an AL activist armed with a sharp weapon patrols the area. Photo: Emran Hossain, Rashed Shumon, Palash Khan, Focus Bangla