Transport workers block Dhaka-Chattogram highway

A group of transport workers blocked the Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Signboard area in Shiddhirganj upazila in Narayanganj on Wednesday morning demanding their safety.

A long tailback was created on the both sides of the highway, said Narayanganj Traffic Police Inspector Molla Taslim.

The transport workers enforced the strike after the college students continued their blockade program for the fourth consecutive day following the death of two students in Dhaka airport area.  

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.