Agitated students have blocked different areas of the capital for the fourth day on Wednesday following the Sunday’s road crash that left two college students dead at the Airport Road.
The aggrieved students were seen stopping every bus and asking for driving licences. If they found any unlicenced vehicles, they broke the glasses.
Around 2:30pm, hundreads of students in school uniform took position at the Purana Paltan area and asked for licences from the drivers.
A Shikor Paribahan bus, coming from the Kakrail area, faced their agitation as its driver failed to show necessary documents.
Within few minutes, the angry students broke the windows and went away to Old Dhaka area shouting “We want Justice, we want justice.”
Commuters in different parts of the city were facing serious troubles in reaching their destinations today as public transports went off the roads apprehending the agitations.
School and college students started demonstrations for the fourth consecutive day in the morning demanding resignation of the Shipping Minister for his comments on the accident.
The students blocked Farmgate, Matuwail, Jatrabari, Babu Bazar Bridge, Kabi Nazrul Government College road, Tongi, House Building road in Uttara areas in the morning.
People were seen waiting on the roads for long for public transport. Office-goers and school students suffered most to reach their destinations in time.
However, some buses of BRTC were seen plying the city roads.
Earlier, the government on Tuesday asked the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) and Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) to take legal actions as per law against the underage drivers and drivers without licences in mass transports,
On Sunday, Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib, students of the college section of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College, were killed as a 'Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan' bus ploughed through some students in front of Kurmitola General Hospital on Airport Road.