Students continue their demonstrations for the fifth consecutive day on Thursday blocking different city streets in demand of safe roads following the killing of two students on Dhaka Airport Road on Sunday last, causing immense sufferings to commuters.
Thousands of students poured onto the streets of Dhaka and blocked various streets including Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Uttara, Mirpur Road, Lalmatia and Gulshan-2 intersection, halting traffic.
They also were seen gathering at Shahbagh intersection braving the rain in the morning on the day.
In Gulshan-2, a group of students took position at the Gulshan-2 intersection blocking traffic movement in the area around 11:00am.
In Badda Link Road, around 1,00 students were checking driving licenses stopping buses and private cars and others vehicles used by police in Badda Link-road area.
Students of Mirpur cantonment public school & college, Adamzi Cantonment College, Mirpur College including others educational insitutions in Mirpur brought out a procession and took position at Mirpur-10 intersection area, halting traffic movement.
Thousands of students were protesting in the major streets of Dhaka to materialise their nine-point demand since the death of two college students on Airport Road last Sunday.
Thousands of commuters either sat idle in the stationary traffic, hoping for a reprieve, or else took to their feet to make their journeys. Some anticipated the gridlock and opted to stay indoors.
The protests not only froze the Dhaka traffic, but also hurt everyday business affairs as well. Several shopkeepers claimed their daily sales were a fraction of their average, while patients and schoolchildren were delayed.
On July 29, two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College, Dia Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib, were killed as the driver of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan bus ploughed into a crowd near the ramp of the Banani flyover, adjacent to the Armed Forces Medical College in Kurmitola.
On July 30, the High Court directed the owners of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan to provide Tk5 lakh within a week to each family of the two students.
The court also ordered the bus owners to bear all the costs of treatment of the nine students injured in the accident.