Pickets vandalised about 13 vehicles and torched a battery-run easy-bike on different roads of the district town during a half-day
hartal called by Islami Chhatra Shibir on Sunday.Hartal supporters put up barricade in Lemua area on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in the morning.
When a group of Shibir activists tried to bring out a procession from Old Police Quarter area and Khejurtala, police obstructed them.
At that time, the Shibir activists hurled two crude bombs targeting police.
Later, the law enforcers fired several rounds of rubber bullet and lobbed teargas shells.
A chase and counter chase took place during the melee.
Police detained eight people from the spot.
The Shibir, student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, called the hartal from 6.00am to 12.00pm protesting the arrest of former Shibir
president Dr Fakhruddin Manik.
(UNB, Feni)
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