BCL men vandalise buses 'for nothing'
A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists vandalised two buses in Panchagarh district town on Wednesday evening.
Protesting the incident, transport workers blocked Panchagarh-Dhaka highway for about two hours.
Local sources said, Md Mizanur Rahman, general secretary of BCL district unit, boarded a bus of Nabil Paribahan coming from Dhaka on Monday night.
During the trip, he locked in an altercation with a passenger over a trivial matter.
When the bus reached Saidpur bus terminal in Nilphamari, a few friends of the passenger attacked Mizanur, leaving him injured.
As a sequel to the incident, the BCL activists smashed the vehicles of the company in front of Karatoya filling station in the town.
They also forced the staff of Nabil Paribahan to shut their counter and beat up the superviser.
The workers withdrew the barricade following an assurance by police of taking steps against those responsible for the offence, said officer in-charge of Panchagarh police station Humayun Kabir.
Contacted, Mizanur said that BCL activists were not involved in the vandalisation.
A case was filed in this connection.
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