<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A day after a clash and police action in Nayapaltan, a tense situation is prevailing in the area in Dhaka where traffic movement remained disrupted since Wednesday night.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">No one is being allowed to enter the area without ID as police set up barricades at the Nightingale intersection in Bijoynagar and Fakirapool crossings. No vehicles were seen in front of the BNP office.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">A huge number of law enforcers remained deployed in the area with armoured and police vehicles.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">No BNP leaders and activists have been seen at the party office since this morning, after Wednesday’s clash.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">However, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is supposed to visit the Nayapaltan office after appearing before a Dhaka court in the morning, Sayrul Kabir Khan, a BNP media cell member, told UNB.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">&nbsp;Traffic movement halted in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan office&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Most offices, shopping malls and shops in the area were closed till 10 am this morning.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Locals said that they are panicked as a huge number of policemen are taking position in the area. They were also facing difficulties in going to their respective destinations.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday claimed that two leaders of their party’s student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal were killed and over 100 others were injured in an attack by police when bullets were fired in front of their party’s Nayapaltan central office.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Besides, he said, around 600 BNP leaders and activists, including party's senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Dhaka south city unit convener Abdus Salam and north city unit convener Amanullah Aman, were arrested from the party office.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The DMP commissioner, meanwhile, said BNP men exploded cocktails from their party office and for that the drive was carried out.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">“We beefed up security by increasing the number of police. It was an official day, and they (BNP) didn’t take prior permission to hold the rally”, he said. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>