Normal life paralysed for second consecutive day
FE Report | Friday, 27 February 2009
Normal life remained paralysed, business halted and academic activities suspended for the second consecutive day Thursday in surrounding areas of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters.
People of the adjacent areas of the BDR headquarters were still frightened even after the BDR mutineers surrendered their arms Thursday evening, witnesses said.
Many residents of the areas close to the BDR headquarters left their homes to safety after an official announcement on evacuation of residents living within three kilometers' radius of the BDR headquarters.
Many of them left the localities seeing the movement of army tanks and heavy machine guns.
Movement of transports, including passenger buses and private cars, remained off all the nearby roads on the day.
As a result, the working people had no alternative but to move on foot.
Besides, movement of transports was thin in other areas due to the prevailing uncertain situation.
Witnesses said markets, business establishments, shops and private offices in surrounding areas of BDR headquarters remained shut for the second day.
Traders and marker operators at New Market, Gawsia, Nilkhet, Diamond Hawkers Market, Russel Square and some other parts of Dhanmondi, Zigatala, Azimpur put their shutters down after the gunfire and burst of mortar shells started inside the command centre of the border gourd forces - BDR.
Transactions in most of the commercial banks located in the areas were badly affected for the second consecutive day.
Normal academic activities of all the adjacent collages, schools and other educational institutions also remained suspended on the day. The Dhaka University authorities have also postponed all examinations scheduled for February 28.
Our DU correspondent said all examinations of Dhaka University (DU) scheduled for Thursday did not take place as the authorities concerned earlier suspended their academic activities following the mutiny in BDR.
Many of the Female students of the nearby Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall and Kuwait-Moitree Hall, who were shifted earlier to Rokeya Hall, Shamsunnahar Hall and Fayzunnesa Chowdhurani Hostel for the security reason, left the Dhaka University campus for their respective relatives' houses in the capital for shelter.
The DU authorities have informed the students that they would take necessary steps depending on the situation.
However, the DU Vice Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique said Thursday: " No such situation has yet arisen for an announcement to vacate the residential halls."
People of the adjacent areas of the BDR headquarters were still frightened even after the BDR mutineers surrendered their arms Thursday evening, witnesses said.
Many residents of the areas close to the BDR headquarters left their homes to safety after an official announcement on evacuation of residents living within three kilometers' radius of the BDR headquarters.
Many of them left the localities seeing the movement of army tanks and heavy machine guns.
Movement of transports, including passenger buses and private cars, remained off all the nearby roads on the day.
As a result, the working people had no alternative but to move on foot.
Besides, movement of transports was thin in other areas due to the prevailing uncertain situation.
Witnesses said markets, business establishments, shops and private offices in surrounding areas of BDR headquarters remained shut for the second day.
Traders and marker operators at New Market, Gawsia, Nilkhet, Diamond Hawkers Market, Russel Square and some other parts of Dhanmondi, Zigatala, Azimpur put their shutters down after the gunfire and burst of mortar shells started inside the command centre of the border gourd forces - BDR.
Transactions in most of the commercial banks located in the areas were badly affected for the second consecutive day.
Normal academic activities of all the adjacent collages, schools and other educational institutions also remained suspended on the day. The Dhaka University authorities have also postponed all examinations scheduled for February 28.
Our DU correspondent said all examinations of Dhaka University (DU) scheduled for Thursday did not take place as the authorities concerned earlier suspended their academic activities following the mutiny in BDR.
Many of the Female students of the nearby Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall and Kuwait-Moitree Hall, who were shifted earlier to Rokeya Hall, Shamsunnahar Hall and Fayzunnesa Chowdhurani Hostel for the security reason, left the Dhaka University campus for their respective relatives' houses in the capital for shelter.
The DU authorities have informed the students that they would take necessary steps depending on the situation.
However, the DU Vice Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique said Thursday: " No such situation has yet arisen for an announcement to vacate the residential halls."