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Highway blocked for 3 hours
Locals blocked the Dhaka-Aricha highway for three hours yesterday following a road accident that left an SSC examinee injured near Baniajuri in Ghior upazila. Sathi Akter, daughter of Selim Bhuiyan of Jabra village and an SSC examinee from Baniajuri Union High School, was admitted to Manikganj Sadar Hospital and later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in a critical condition. Witnesses and police sources said, an Aricha-bound microbus hit Sathi at Baniajuri bus stand while she was crossing the road at about 10:00am. Hearing the news, locals and the students of the school put up a barricade on the highway at 10:30am demanding punishment to the culprits and a speed breaker at Baniajuri bus stand. They removed the barricade at about 1:30pm after the local authorities started constructing a speed breaker at the spot.
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