Agitating students take to streets in Dhaka again for safe roads

Chanting slogans for justice, hundreds of students clad in school or college uniforms took to the streets in Bangladesh capital Dhaka for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday, witnesses and police said.

The students protesting at the death of two students killed in a fatal road accident on Sunday in front of Kurmitola General Hospital on Airport Road in Dhaka demanded safe road and punishment of those who were driving without valid licence.

The protesting students blocked different roads in the capital disrupting traffic movement which led to serious trouble for the commuters.

A huge contingent of police was deployed in different areas to ward off any untoward incidents.

Students of different schools and colleges blocked Shahbagh, Farmgate, Kakrail intersection, Jatrabari, Babu Bazar Bridge, Kabi Nazrul Government College road, Tongi, House Building road in Uttara areas in the morning.

They demanded resignation of shipping minister Shajahan Khan, who is also a transport sector leader.

In many areas, public transports went off the road apprehending students’ wrath and protesting at damage of public transports by the agitating students.

The government on Tuesday asked the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and Dhaka Metropolitan Police to take legal actions against errant drivers and unfit vehicles in the capital.

Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib, two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College, were killed as a bus ploughed through a crowd of students who were waiting for buses in front of Kurmitola General Hospital on Airport Road on Sunday.

Angered by the incident, students took to the streets demanding justice for Diya and Rajib and safe roads.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net