<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The Bhola unit BNP depart its dawn-to-dusk general strike in the district on Thursday noon.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Golam Nabi, president of the district unit BNP, made the announcement.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, party activists carried out a procession around 8am and blocked the road in front of the district unit office amid police presence.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the 10-member probe body formed by the BNP to look into Sunday's police firing on a protest program that killed a Chhatra Dal leader dead reached the town. They will brief reporters in the afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday, Chhatra district unit President Nura Alam suffered bullet wounds during a clash with police.</div><div><br></div><div>Humayun Kabir said Nura Alam was taken to Comfort Diagnostic Centre in the capital on the same day where he succumbed to his injuries around 3:15pm on Wednesday. He had been on life support at the hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>As part of BNP’s countrywide demonstration program protesting the ongoing load shedding and mismanagement in the power sector, the leaders and activists of the party gathered in front of their district party office in Bhola on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>At one stage, police obstructed them when they tried to stage demonstrations at Kalinath Roy Bazar around 11:30am, triggering a clash.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, police fired bullets and lobbed teargas shells that left local Swechchasebak Dal Leader Abdur Rahim dead and some other leaders and activists of the party injured.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>