No activities at Benapole
Export through Benapole land port remained suspended following assault on a Bangladeshi truck driver by C&F agent employees at the port yesterday morning. Imtiaz Ahmed, revenue officer at Benapole customs cargo office said, hundreds of trucks loaded with hilsha fish and other items got stranded on both sides of the border after the incident. Md Shaheen Hossain, secretary of truck drivers union said C&F men beat up the truck driver after one bag jute yearn from the Bangladeshi export truck went missing. Abul Kalam Azad, director of Benapole port, however, said import and other activities including loading and unloading of goods were going on as usual at the port.
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