DHAKA: An auto-rickshaw driver was killed and 10 persons including two cops were injured amid sporadic violence throughout the country on Wednesday, the first day of 48-hour Jamaat-e-Islami sponsored hartal.

Law enforcing agencies, however, nabbed 43 Jamaat-Shibir activists from different districts including capital in connection with hartal violence.

Law enforcers took alert position in different points of the capital and other parts in the country.

In Feni, a driver of CNG-run auto-rickshaw died after sustaining head injuries in an attack by hartal supporters at around 2:00am.

In Satkhira, 12 Jamaat-Shibir men nabbed by police and one got bullet injuries as they hurled several cocktails at police near Kadamtola area in the district.  

In Comilla, seven Jamaat activists and two police men were injured after a clash between picketers and police at Laksham upazila.

In the capital, police arrested three Jamaat-Shibir men for hurling crude bombs near Kalshi area at Mirpur in wee hours of the day.

In Sylhet, metropolitan police arrested 20 Jamaat-shibir men from different parts of the city for planning to conduct subversive act.
 
In Khulna, three picketers detained by police for hurling cocktails and setting fire on tyres and barricaded road.

In Brahmanbaria, police detained six picketers from different areas of the district during hartal hours.

On Tuesday, Jamaat-e-Islami called a 48-hour hartal from Wednesday morning protesting the Supreme Court verdict that sentenced Qauder Mollah alias Kashai Quder(butcher) to death.

Earlier in the day, the Appellate division on Tuesday sentenced Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah to death for his involvement in crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.

BDST: 1232 HRS, SEP 18, 2013
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