Indefinite transport strike on in Sylhet
Saturday, 5 April 2014
An indefinite transport strike began in Sylhet on Saturday morning. Transport workers on Friday called the indefinite strike in the district from 6am today demanding the arrest of the killers of a driver and attackers of another one. Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Oikya Parishad announced the action programme from an emergency meeting held in the city yesterday evening. On Friday, miscreants swooped on an auto-rickshaw driver, Shafique Miah, in Lalabazaar area of Dakkhin Surma upazila of Sylhet over a previous feud, leaving him injured. Injured driver was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital in a critical condition. On Tuesday night, a pickup driver was chopped to death by miscreants at Dhopagul on the outskirts of the city, according to a news agency.