At least four persons were killed in clashes as a 60-hour countrywide strike called by Opposition parties demanding a neutral caretaker Government in poll-bound Bangladesh entered its second day today, raising the overall death toll in violence linked to political unrest to 15.
Supporters of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its rightwing ally Jamaat-e-Islami stabbed a rival supporter to death in northern Jamalpur, police said.
In Chittagong, a trucker died as his vehicle overturned after picketers threw brick chips at him, they said. The third death was reported from western Jhinaidah where a local BNP leader was bombed and knifed to death by suspected rival activists.