Students demanding safer roads have given the government 48 hours to concede their demands.
The agitated students ignored Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam and city police chief Asaduzzaman Mia's requests to end the protest and vowed to continue demonstration until their demands are met, reports UNB.
A bus operated by 'Suprobhat Paribahan' ran over and killed Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury, 20, a first-year student of international relations department at the Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) on a zebra crossing near Pragrati Sarani on Tuesday. Private university students have since been demonstrating at the area, according to a bdnews24 report.
"The demands of the students are logical," Mayor Atiqul was quoted by UNB on Wednesday. "They will be fulfilled."
Atiqul also laid a foundation stone of a foot overbridge in the area where Abrar was killed. "The construction work will be completed within the next two months," he said.
Protests triggered by Abrar's death continued for the second consecutive day on Wednesday. Their demands include maximum punishment for the bus driver.
Other demands include checking papers of drivers on regular basis, making transport sector free from political influence, construction of foot overbridges, installing speed-breakers at risky points, and stopping unfit vehicles from plying.
Witnesses said hundreds of students from BUP, North South University, and Siddheshwari College occupied the street just after 9:00am, halting traffic on the busy road.
They shouted slogans demanding justice for Abrar, a first-year undergraduate international relations student.
