Highway blocked in Noakhali protesting deaths in road crash
Noakhali, June 13 (UNB) - Agitated local people this (Wednesday) morning blocked Begumganj-Laxmipur highway at Banglabazar in Begumganj upazila protesting Tuesday’s road accident that left five people killed.
The upazila administration and locals said several hundred people took to the highway at about 7 am and put barricade on it by putting logs.
The agitated people also demanded stopping reckless driving of bus and other vehicles on the road and taking initiatives to check the frequent road accidents. The blockade created huge traffic jam causing untold sufferings to the commuters, including students and office-goers.
Additional police, including riot ones, were deployed in the area to avoid any untoward incident.
Begumganj UNO Khondaker Nurul Haque told UNB that the upazila administration at a meeting with the agitating people, bus and CNG auto-rickshaw owners at his office on Tuesday night assured them of checking the road accidents and stopping speedy driving of vehicles on the road. But the angry people ignoring assurance continued their demonstration.
Earlier, on Tuesday, five people were killed and 10 others injured in a triangular collision of a bus, a truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Begumganj-Laxmipur highway at Kalikapur in Begumganj upazila.
The deceased were Nargis, 28, Anwar Hossain, 26, Saleh, 21, Yasin Arafat Kathal, 25, and an unidentified youth, aged about 23. They all were the passengers of the auto-rickshaw.
The upazila administration and locals said several hundred people took to the highway at about 7 am and put barricade on it by putting logs.
The agitated people also demanded stopping reckless driving of bus and other vehicles on the road and taking initiatives to check the frequent road accidents. The blockade created huge traffic jam causing untold sufferings to the commuters, including students and office-goers.
Additional police, including riot ones, were deployed in the area to avoid any untoward incident.
Begumganj UNO Khondaker Nurul Haque told UNB that the upazila administration at a meeting with the agitating people, bus and CNG auto-rickshaw owners at his office on Tuesday night assured them of checking the road accidents and stopping speedy driving of vehicles on the road. But the angry people ignoring assurance continued their demonstration.
Earlier, on Tuesday, five people were killed and 10 others injured in a triangular collision of a bus, a truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Begumganj-Laxmipur highway at Kalikapur in Begumganj upazila.
The deceased were Nargis, 28, Anwar Hossain, 26, Saleh, 21, Yasin Arafat Kathal, 25, and an unidentified youth, aged about 23. They all were the passengers of the auto-rickshaw.
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