Transport workers clash with police

Agitating transport workers clashed with members of the law enforcement in Dhaka’s Gabtoli area during the second day of the countrywide transport strike on Wednesday.

Policemen fired teargas shells and rubber bullets on the strikers as the latter put up barricade on roads in the area during the clash.

The clash between transport workers and law enforcement are going on when this report was being filed.

The protesters moved to the Mirpur Mazar Road in the morning from their earlier position near Gabtoli cattle market.

Witnesses said the agitating workers blocked the roads of the area by placing makeshift shops on the roads.

Additional police force was deployed in the area to control the situation.

Transport workers have enforced a wildcat indefinite strike across the country from Tuesday morning following a court verdict that sentenced a driver to death, leaving people in distress and caused immense sufferings.

Transport workers earlier enforced another indefinite strike in 10 districts of Khulna division since Sunday, protesting at the life term imprisonment of a bus driver in a case over a road accident that killed five people, including noted filmmaker Tareque Masud and cinematographer Mishuk Munier.
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Source: Prothom Alo