Chittagong – Unidentified miscreants torched a polling centre in Sitakundu upazila headquarters on Friday night. Locals said the miscreants set fire to the makeshift polling centre at Alam-Shafi School in the upazila headquarters at about 8:30pm.
Meanwhile, the port city was rocked with crude bomb blasts in three spots at the night.
Police said unspecific number of crude bombs was blasted in GSC, Bahaddarhat and Almas Cinema Hall areas.Police arrested two people with several bombs in the city’s Bakolia area around 9pm.
Miscreants torched a polling centre in the district town on Friday night. Police said the miscreants set fire to the poling centre at Baniachal Govt Primary School around 9:45pm, burning down valuables at the office room of the school. – UNB
Bdnews24.com adds: Five voting centres have been set on fire in Feni’s Daganbhuiyan two days before the general elections due on Sunday amid
the Opposition’s nonstop blockade across the country.
Two of the educational institutions that housed the polling centres have been gutted and two others partially damaged, while it was
possible to douse the fire before it spread to another.
The acts of sabotage had been carried out around the same time in the wee hours of Friday, said Daganbhuiyan Police Station’s OC Md Nizam
Uddin.
All the five education institutions were supposed to be used as polling centres during the 10th national elections.
Arsonists set fire to the Gajaria Model Academy and Sultana Memorial High School around 1.30am, RAB-7 Feni Camp Captain Maj Mohiuddin said.
Locals and fire fighters rushed to the spot and put out the fire.
Semi-concrete rooms, furniture and new textbooks kept for distribution among students of the two schools were gutted.
Nayanpur Government Primary School was also torched around the same time.
The arsonists also set the Sekandarpur Bashiria Dakhil Madrassa and the Karimullah High School on fire.
Police, RAB, BGB and army personnel have stepped up patrolling in these affected areas since morning, OC Nizamuddin said.
Jatiya Party candidate Rintu Anwar is contesting with the ‘plough’ symbol and Awami League’s rebel candidate Rahim Ullah is contesting as
an independent candidate from this constituency.
The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance has been relentlessly enforcing shutdowns and blockades since Nov 26, rejecting the polls
schedule.
The alliance demanded the election be held under the supervision of a non-party government.
Candidates of 154 constituencies have already been declared uncontested winners since the opposition is boycotting the elections.
Voting will be held in the remaining 147 seats on Sunday.
