The BNP-led 18-Party alliance has announced nationwide general strikes for two consecutive days -- May 8 and 9 -- from 6am to 6pm.
Police claimed eight people died, but bdnews24.com Narayanganj Correspondent confirmed 14 deaths from the clashes after visiting several hospitals and interviewing local people.
After Hifazat supporters were flushed out from Dhaka, they blocked the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in three areas of Kanchpur and Siddhirganj locality in Narayanganj since morning and started vandalising vehicles.
The law-enforcing agencies in a pincer raid had ejected the Hifazat men – mostly Jamaat-e-Islami supporters, as police claim – in the early hours of Monday after they had declared nonstop sit-in in Motijheel after their Dhaka blockade programme on Sunday.
BGB Director General Major General Aziz Ahmed said, "Hifazat supporters, while leaving Dhaka, were joined by 'some miscreants' in launching a blockade and acts of vandalism. Police and BGB were attacked when they tried to chase them away."
Police said Hifazat men blockaded the road with logs and bamboos. They vandalised up to 10 vehicles and set four vehicles including two BRTC buses on fire at the time.
After six members of police and BGB were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with critical injuries sustained during the clashes, duty doctors declared three of them dead, DMCH Police Camp Inspector Mozammel Haque said.
The identities of the deceased law keepers were confirmed as BGB trooper Shah Alam and police constable 'Zakaria' and Nayek Firoz.
Gen Aziz also visited the critically injured -- BGB trooper Lavlu, police SIs Sulaiman and Pannu -- at DMCH.
At noon, a van driver’s assistant Mijanur Rahman, 16, and one Marzanul Haque, 28, were brought to DMCH with bullet injuries, Inspector Haque said. Both were declared dead by doctors on arrival at the hospital.
Van driver Azim said they had parked their van and were repairing it when clashes began and Nizamul was hit by a bullet.
The dead bodies of two readymade garment workers, ‘Masum’, 32, and Abdul Hannan, 30, were brought to 200-bed hospital at Narayanganj’s Khanpur, the emergency unit doctor Nazim Uddin told bdnews24.com.
Relatives took away their bodies before their autopsy was done, he said.
After Hifazat supporters were flushed out from Dhaka, they blocked the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in three areas of Kanchpur and Siddhirganj locality in Narayanganj since morning and started vandalising vehicles.
The law-enforcing agencies in a pincer raid had ejected the Hifazat men – mostly Jamaat-e-Islami supporters, as police claim – in the early hours of Monday after they had declared nonstop sit-in in Motijheel after their Dhaka blockade programme on Sunday.
BGB Director General Major General Aziz Ahmed said, "Hifazat supporters, while leaving Dhaka, were joined by 'some miscreants' in launching a blockade and acts of vandalism. Police and BGB were attacked when they tried to chase them away."
Police said Hifazat men blockaded the road with logs and bamboos. They vandalised up to 10 vehicles and set four vehicles including two BRTC buses on fire at the time.
After six members of police and BGB were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with critical injuries sustained during the clashes, duty doctors declared three of them dead, DMCH Police Camp Inspector Mozammel Haque said.
The identities of the deceased law keepers were confirmed as BGB trooper Shah Alam and police constable 'Zakaria' and Nayek Firoz.
Gen Aziz also visited the critically injured -- BGB trooper Lavlu, police SIs Sulaiman and Pannu -- at DMCH.
At noon, a van driver’s assistant Mijanur Rahman, 16, and one Marzanul Haque, 28, were brought to DMCH with bullet injuries, Inspector Haque said. Both were declared dead by doctors on arrival at the hospital.
Van driver Azim said they had parked their van and were repairing it when clashes began and Nizamul was hit by a bullet.
The dead bodies of two readymade garment workers, ‘Masum’, 32, and Abdul Hannan, 30, were brought to 200-bed hospital at Narayanganj’s Khanpur, the emergency unit doctor Nazim Uddin told bdnews24.com.
Relatives took away their bodies before their autopsy was done, he said.
Corpses of three unidentified people also remained at the 100-bed hospital at the city's Mandalparha, resident doctor Asaduzzaman told bdnews24.com.
He said police left the the bodies in three phases since morning, but they were not provided with any identification. Police also told hospital officials that the bodies will be autopsied on Tuesday.
However, relatives of three deceased – Saiful, 36, Jasimuddin, 32, and Polash, 25, all from Siddhirganj who died during the clashes – collected their remains from the scene and buried them at local graveyard.
Another unidentified body recovered from the site of the clashes was kept at Maa Medical and Lab in Narayanganj's Shimrail intersection, its emergency unit doctor Abdul Quaiyum said.
Some more hit by bullets have been admitted there, he added.
However, Superintendent of Narayanganj Police Syed Nurul Islam claimed only eight people died in the clashes.
He told bdnews24.com: "Other than these dead, one or two people might have died but not more."
The clashes began at around 7am on Monday after an intense stand-off when police and BGB personnel tried to chase away the Hifazat supporters blocking the Dhaka-Chittagong highway, he said. Teargas shells and bullets were fired at the time to disperse them, Islam added.
The area became a battle zone amid clashes and running battles between Hifazat activists and law enforcers, locals said.
Supporters of the Chittagong-based radical group smashed up over 50 vehicles, while eight vehicles including two pick-ups of police and RAB, two BGB vehicles and an oil tanker were set on fire.
A traffic police outpost was also burnt down.
SP Nurul Islam said activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir and BNP also joined Hifazat men in attacking the law keepers.
The Hifazat men moved from the highway at around 10am, but continued to pelt the police and border guards with brickbats in adjoining areas. The situation calmed down at around noon.
Meanwhile, hundreds including members of law-enforcing agencies were injured during the clashes and later hospitalised.
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