Police arrested 10 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir in four upazilas of the district on charge of creating trouble during today’s (Wednesday) hartal called by Jamaat.
Additional Police Super Joydeb Chowdhury of the district said police arrested 10 Jamaat-Shibir men in Sadar, Ashashuni, Kaliganj and Tala upazilas for destabilising peace during the shutdown.
Of the arrestees, five were identified as Asaduzzaman, Azad, Al Amin Gazi, Khairul Bashar and Raihan.
Witnesses said police arrested four Shibir men when they blasted six crude bombs at Narkeltala in Sadar upazila in the morning.
The rest six– three from Tala, two from Kaliganj and one from Ashashuni– were also arrested while picketing.
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