Angry student protesters blocked national capital city’s major intersections for the fourth day Wednesday, disrupting traffic movement in and round the capital town.
Students from completely different colleges and faculties took to the streets stringent penalty of the motive force liable for Sunday's road crash that killed 2 school students and resignation of shipping minister Shahjahan Khan for his comments on the accident.
The protesters blocked Farmgate, laboratory, New Market, inexperienced Road-Panthapath, Banasree, Rampura, Matuail, Jatrabari, man Bazar Bridge, Bhatara, Khilkhet, Kabi Nazrul Government school road, Tongi, House Building road in Uttara, and Mirpur road within the morning.
According to UNB, , students from around twenty faculties, together with Arab chief Borhanuddin school, national capital school, Ideal school, and Commerce school, took position at Shahbagh intersection at midday stringent corporal punishment of the motive force and helpers of the killer bus and resignation of the shipping minister.
Students of Bangladesh|national capital} University and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) joined the protests and expressed their commonness with their demands.
Students of Viqarunnisa midday faculty and school, Siddeshwari Girls' faculty and school and Habibullah Bahar school took to the streets with placards and took position at Shantinagar intersection around 1pm. They musical completely different slogans stringent penalty of the motive force accountable and left the place around 3pm.
Witnesses aforementioned a gaggle of scholars of various faculties blocked the House Building road within the city's Uttara space within the morning, disrupting traffic movement.
Another cluster of scholars place up barricade on Mirpur road, halting traffic from Mirpur-10 to Mirpur-1 areas. They additionally vandalised some twenty vehicles passing through the world.
The agitated students torched and vandalised a employees bus of Biman East Pakistan Airlines close to Kurmitola Golf Club.
Meanwhile, commuters in several components of the town face serious troubles in reaching their destinations as public transports went off the streets apprehending agitations by students and BRTA drive against underage drivers and drivers while not licences in mass transports.
People were seen waiting on the roads for long for public transports. Office-goers and college students, significantly girls and women, suffered most to succeed in their destinations in time.
However, some BRTC buses were seen plying the town roads.
UNB's Gazipur correspondent reports: Students of EH Arif school place up barricades at Konabari on Dhaka-Tangail route at ten am, halting conveyance movement.
Besides, students of various colleges and faculties took position and staged demonstrations in school Gate space on Dhaka-Mymensingh route stringent safety on roads.
UNB Narayanganj correspondent adds: Transport house owners stopped operational busses from construction areas fearing roguishness, inflicting sufferings to commuters.
Witnesses aforementioned variety of busses were found stationary at some extent in construction space.
In Chittagong, students from completely different colleges and faculties on Wednesday blocked the road close to Kazirdewri space stringent penalty of these liable for the death of the 2 students.
Several hundred students of various establishments gathered within the space and brought out a procession that paraded Kazirdewri and Jamalkhan areas.
Officer-in-charge of Kotwali police headquarters Md Mohsin aforementioned the scholars left the place at midday.
UNB Sylhet correspondent reports: students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) shaped somebody's chain complaining Sunday's death of the 2 students.
In the morning, the final students of the university shaped the human chain before of its Central Library on the field.
They additionally demanded resignation of the shipping minister.
On Tuesday, the govt asked the East Pakistan Road Transport Authority (BRTA) and national capital Metropolitan Police (DMP) to require legal actions as per law against the underage drivers and drivers while not licences in mass transports,
On Sunday, Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib, students of the school section of ShaheedRamizUddin faculty and school, were killed as a 'Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan' bus plowed through some students before of Kurmitola General Hospital on airfield Road.
Angered by the incident, students went on a rampage vandalising no matter buses they found before them.
They additionally blocked the airfield Road for 5 hours on Mon, making Brobdingnagian tailbacks on several town roads.
They blocked intersections in Farmgate, Mirpur, ECB Chattar, Kakrail, Shantinagar and Motijheel areas on Tuesday morning whereas in Uttara and Badda within the afternoon, transferral the conveyance movement to a grinding halt within the areas.