'Militant attacks linked with hartal call'
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
State minister for Home Shamsul Hoque Tuku has claimed that BNP's call for hartal has links with militant activities.
He referred to the grenade attack on the police in the city's Jurain Sunday night and said, "I'm alarmed. The militants have sprung into action immediately after the hartal announcement."
BNP called for a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike on June 27 to 'caution' the government, reports bdnews24.com.
Tuku went to see an injured police personnel at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Monday, accompanied by Inspector General of Police Nur Mohammad.
Seven police members had received injuries in the attack while raiding a hideout of militants at Jurain Sunday night. Four others were also injured during the raid-including one of the alleged militants, the house owner and two local people, police said.
Kodomtoli thana officer-in-charge Ayubur Rahman told the news agency that militants threw bombs at them during a raid on an apartment at Commissioner Road.
The assailants were members of the banned Islamist outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, Bangladesh, police said adding one of the injured confessed to being a member of the outlawed party.
He said additional superintendent of police Jannatul Hasan, aided by Kodomtoli police, led the operation with a team of anti-militancy unit of Special Branch of Police.
As the team went to the second floor, a bomb was thrown at them from inside the house, Rahman said.
A wounded policeman told reporters at the hospital that they had come under the bomb attack after a woman opened the doors, switched on the lights and saw the police.
He referred to the grenade attack on the police in the city's Jurain Sunday night and said, "I'm alarmed. The militants have sprung into action immediately after the hartal announcement."
BNP called for a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike on June 27 to 'caution' the government, reports bdnews24.com.
Tuku went to see an injured police personnel at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Monday, accompanied by Inspector General of Police Nur Mohammad.
Seven police members had received injuries in the attack while raiding a hideout of militants at Jurain Sunday night. Four others were also injured during the raid-including one of the alleged militants, the house owner and two local people, police said.
Kodomtoli thana officer-in-charge Ayubur Rahman told the news agency that militants threw bombs at them during a raid on an apartment at Commissioner Road.
The assailants were members of the banned Islamist outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, Bangladesh, police said adding one of the injured confessed to being a member of the outlawed party.
He said additional superintendent of police Jannatul Hasan, aided by Kodomtoli police, led the operation with a team of anti-militancy unit of Special Branch of Police.
As the team went to the second floor, a bomb was thrown at them from inside the house, Rahman said.
A wounded policeman told reporters at the hospital that they had come under the bomb attack after a woman opened the doors, switched on the lights and saw the police.