Food looted in Chattogram
Poor and unemployed people in Chattogram looted food items from a pickup van while in Tangail, Narayanganj, Kushtia and Chattogram staged demonstrations demanding food assistance amid the government imposed public holidays and restrictions on movement to tackle coronavirus situation.
The New Age correspondent in Chattogram reported that a group of 25 to 30 people, who had been demonstrating at Barapool area of Halishahar in Chattogram on Saturday morning demanding food supply, looted different food items from a food laden van that reached there at about 10:00am.
Pickup driver Robiul Alam said that he was carrying food by for the state-owned oil company Padma Oil.
The people stopped the van by blocking the road and looted a portion of the food when he reached Barapool area.
He said that he had been carrying rice, fish, beef, apple and fruits.
On the other hand, auto-rickshaw drivers blocked the road at the same place for two hours since 10:00am demanding relief.
Halishahar police station officer-in-charge Jashim Uddin said that auto-rickshaw drivers took position on the road for relief and, hearing the news, police rushed to the spot and made a list of the drivers and sent them back to home assuring them of providing relief later.
The New Age correspondent in Narayanganj reported that over 100 people demonstrated for an hours since 12:00pm by blocking Dhaka-Narayanganj Link Road near Fatulla Khan Saheb Osman Ali Stadium demanding food and relief materials.
Fatulla police station officer-in-charge Aslam Hossain said that the demonstrators left the place as they assured them of relief.
The New Age correspondent in Tangail reported that over 100 people demonstrated demanding relief by blocking Tangail-Mymensingh Road at Gangair Bazar under Madhupur upazila for about two and half an hour until 2:00pm.
Modhupur upazila nirbahi officer Arifa Jahura said that she calmed the demonstrators assuring them of food support after preparing a list.
The New Age correspondent from Islamic University in Kushtia reported that several hundred villagers of Canalpara area under Chourhash municipality demonstrated at Collectorate Chattar in Kushtia town on Saturday demanding government relief.
The situation came under control after Kushita deputy commissioner Aslam Hossain pledged that villagers who became jobless due to the public holidays would get food assistance at their homes.
Kushtia municipal ward councillor Sayeef-Ul-Alam claimed that they distributed government relief among 80 people.
They were trying to make a new list taking the people’s national ID cards and relief would be distributed among them soon, he added.
News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net
