8-hr hartal in Comilla Thursday
The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance today called an eight-hour shutdown in Comilla city for Thursday protesting death of two people in separate clashes.
Mushtaq Ahmed, general secretary of Comilla district BNP, this afternoon said they would enforce the hartal from 6:00am to 2:00pm.
Earlier in the day; Babul Mia, a rickshaw-puller, was killed and 26 were injured in a clash in Laksham upazila.
Another auto-rickshaw driver, Delwar, was killed during a clash between BNP-Jamaat activists and law enforcers at Kandirpar of the city last night.
Mushtaq claimed both Babul and Delwar were opposition activists.
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