Jamaat hartal claims life of man
Though owners of inter-district buses declared to disregard Jamaat-e-Islami's countrywide hartal yesterday, the buses were left parked as shown in this photo taken from the capital's Mohakhali Bus Terminal.Photo: STAR
Mohammad Iqbal, 35, a sub-contractor, defied hartal yesterday to distribute salaries among his workers. He was going to the capital's Kafrul but could never reach there. He was dead on the way. It was the hartal violence by Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir, which claimed his life. In the morning, Iqbal started from his house in Rampura. The human hauler he was riding came under the attack of the pickets at Madhya Badda around 8:00am, said locals. While trying desperately to escape the violence, the vehicle overturned, leaving Iqbal seriously injured. He was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and declared dead there around 9:00am. Another man was injured in the accident. He took treatment in a local hospital. Devid Halder, a witness and roadside tea vendor of Madhya Badda, said a group of pro-hartal activists suddenly attacked the moving vehicles with bricks and sticks. The vehicles were moving haphazardly to escape vandalism, and a human hauler of Bandhu Paribahan, which was carrying Iqbal, turned upside down near his shop, he told The Daily Star. Police said they recovered a mobile phone and Tk 29,000 in cash from Iqbal. Hailing from Nabirnagar, Brahmanbaria, Iqbal got married to Aklima Begum three years ago and left no children. Adil Miah, elder brother of Iqbal, said they were planning to observe their father's death anniversary on February 21. "Now we have to arrange Iqbal's qulkhwani on that day,†he said in tears. Badda police arrested two suspected Shibir men for carrying out the attack.
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