An 18-year-old youth was shot dead on Monday night during clashes in the northern town of Chirirbandar, 300 kilometres (180 miles) from the capital Dhaka, and unrest spread to other cities on Tuesday.
Jamaat supporters torched and damaged about 20 vehicles including a car belonging to the US Embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday and 69 people were detained on charges of violence, police said. "Jamaat activists hurled bricks at a US embassy car which was coming from the airport after dropping a foreigner. Its glasses were smashed. They also tried to torch the car," police sub-inspector Abu Saleh told AFP.
In a statement posted in the party's website Jamaat's acting secretary general Shafiqur Rahman said "sorry" for the incident saying they were ready to pay compensation for the damaged car and to the injured driver. Violence was also reported in the eastern town of Brahmanbaria and in the cities of Sylhet, Rajshahi and Narayanganj.