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Students block Dhaka’s key intersections demanding safer roads

Staff Correspondent
12 Sep 2022 16:49:16 | Update: 12 Sep 2022 17:06:43
Students block Dhaka’s key intersections demanding safer roads
School and college students block a key intersection as they protest demanding road safety norms in Dhaka on September 12, 2022, following the death of their fellow classmate in a road accident. — AFP Photo

Students of Government Science College took to the streets to protest the death of a schoolboy in a road accident in the capital's Tejgaon.

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Around 11:45 am on Monday, protesters descended on the Farmgate area, some holding placards that read "Justice for all" and "We want safe roads."

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After about 40 minutes, the students marched to Bijoy Sarani and continued their protest, halting traffic on all sides of the intersection.

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They demonstrated for about 20 minutes at Bijoy Sarani before marching back to Farmgate.

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Ali Hossain, 16, a tenth grader of Government Science College, was killed as a microbus hit him in the city’s Tejgaon area on Sunday morning.

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The speeding vehicle hit Hossain in front of the Bangladesh Government (BG) Press in Tejgaon industrial area around 7:30 am when he was going for his coaching classes, leaving him seriously injured,  said Hossain’s father Azmir Matbor.

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Locals rushed him to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared him dead, said DMCH police outpost in-charge inspector Md Bacchu Mia.

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