Another burn victim succumbs to injuries

FE Report
Another burn victim succumbed to his injuries early on Friday as the nationwide non-stop blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance, passed 60 consecutive days amid arson attacks, blasts and arrests.
The victim was identified as Ranajit Nath (35), who came under a petrol bomb attack at Chariya Madrasha on the Chittagong-Khagrachhari Highway while he was travelling by an auto-rickshaw on Wednesday night.
Soon after the attack, critically burnt Nath was rushed to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) where he breathed his last in the early hours of the day, sources at the hospital said.
With the latest victim, nearly 100 people had been killed and a hundred others wounded since January 06, when the 20-party alliance started enforcing indefinite blockade on various demands, including parliamentary election under a neutral administration, protesting the government's repressive acts and growing number of extrajudicial killings.  
Most of them were killed in petrol bomb attacks on transports in various parts of the country during the two months of violence.
A person was injured when pro-blockade activists hurled petrol bombs on an intercity train in the capital's airport area in the morning. On information, fire fighters rushed to the spot and doused the fire soon after their arrival.    
Reports of explosions were also reported in Old Dhaka and Uttara in the afternoon. However, no major incident of violence was reported in the capital and elsewhere in the country till filing of the report at 7:30pm.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained at least 12 activists of the alliance in the last 24 hours till 9:00am from different parts of the capital.
Officials at the DMP said they were held allegedly for planning sabotage in the capital during the BNP's agitation. Of the arrestees, 11 are BNP men and one is an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami.
Meanwhile, the BNP in a latest statement welcomed the initiative for dialogue suggested by various quarters, including the United Nations, at home and abroad.
The statement issued by the party's Joint Secretary General Salah Uddin Ahmed on the day said the 20-party alliance is the largest democratic political coalition in the country and it firmly believes in peaceful democratic movement.
"We (the alliance) believe in talks or dialogue for resolving any national crisis and we also welcome initiative for dialogue as suggested by various quarters locally and internationally," he said in the statement.
The statement said good sense will, hopefully, prevail upon the government in this connection before time expires. "Otherwise the government will have to take all the responsibility under the circumstances."
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