Road mishap triggers protest
Locals put hours-long blockade on Dinajpur-Dhaka highway at Rajapur in Dinajpur Sadar upazila yesterday demanding speed breakers there, after a bus accident at the spot left 25 passengers injured. Photo: STAR
Road communication was disrupted with several districts for about five hours as angry villagers blocked Dinajpur-Dhaka highway following a road accident yesterday morning. The road link was restored at 2:10pm after police built two speed breakers at Rajapur of the highway. With the new two, the number of speed breakers went up to 42 on the 35km highway between Dinajpur and Phulbari upazila. Police quoting locals of the area said that a crowded passenger bus was coming to Dinajpur from Gaibandha yesterday. The bus lost control at Rajapur point of Sadar upazila at around 9.00am as one of its front tyres went out of order causing the vehicle to hit roadside trees, leaving at least 25 passengers injured. Twelve of the injured were rushed to Dinajpur Medical College and Hospital. They are Ruma, 25, Kariyam, 25, Khurshida Begum, 25, Md. Sharwar Begum, 40, Sadi Mohammad, 40, Makferatun, 40, Shamsiya, 18, Abdul Salam, 65, Hasina Banu, 55, Aleya, 35, Md. Abdul Hakim, 50, and Awara Begum, 35. The accident triggered agitation among the locals who put up a road barricade with logs, leaving nearly 200 vehicles on both side of the highway stranded. At around 11.30am, police took an attempt to disperse the agitators but failed. Later they built two speed breakers on the highway as demanded by the villagers.
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