Clashes, police attack mark LDA general strike in protest at skyrocketing commodity prices

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Police used clubs and teargas shells to disperse the leaders and activists of the left parties who took to the streets in Dhaka and elsewhere on Monday to enforce a six-hour general strike in protest against skyrocketing prices of essential commodities.
The strike was called by the Left Democratic Alliance, a combine of nine left political parties.
The pickets blocked the roads to traffic at several points in Dhaka, but demonstration at Purana Paltan escalated into a pitched battle with police who finally drove off the protesters by clubbing and firing teargas shells.
At least 55 leaders and activists were injured as police attacked the LDA activists in Dhaka and Narayanganj and foiled their rallies and processions in Chattogram and Khulna.