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Fatullah residents weary of routine gridlock on Dhaka-Narayanganj road
Traffic congestion on the old Dhaka-Narayanganj road from Chashara to Panchabati, Fatullah Bazar, and post office to Munshi Khola of Pagla has become a daily routine.
School and college students, as well as garment workers and professionals, are often stuck in traffic.
Owing to lack of proper monitoring from public representatives and top administration officials, it has become impossible to bring the traffic congestion under control. As a result, there is no end to passengers’ suffering from morning to night.
The reason for this traffic congestion, among others, is that buses pick up passengers by braking anywhere on either side of the road at Panchabati intersection; freight trucks load and unload at the entrance of the market adjacent to Fatullah Mosque, and the illegally built easybike stand in front of Shibu Market at Fatullah Post Office.
As a result, the traffic on this essential road remains gridlocked and passengers suffer for countless hours.
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Another reason contributing to the traffic congestion is empty trucks being parked on the Dhaka-Narayanganj DND road. Apart from that, goods-laden trucks constantly face difficulty crossing the entry and exit points of Fatullah.
Despite having traffic police nearby, they are not performing their duties properly.
The road between BSCIC Gate2 to Panchabati is frequently congested. only because the truck drivers and auto rickshaws violate traffic laws, causing significant suffering for passengers. Even pedestrians face difficulty walking on footpaths.
Munshikhola, Taltala is the hub for the country's largest rod cements. From here bricks, cement and rods are supplied to north and south Bengal. Many of the regular commuters on this road said it is difficult to tell how they will travel during this holy month of Ramadan.
In addition to occupying the entire road, easybike-mishuk-buses-trucks are also parked on mud roads hampering movement of people.
The commuters admit that no driver of any vehicle, big or small, wants to obey the traffic rules.
In order to remove traffic congestion on this route, the common people strongly demanded increased community policing along with the traffic police. That can free parts of the road of traffic jams.
Specifically, commuters UNB spoke to blamed the drivers and helpers of two transport companies - Ananda and Borak Paribahan - for contributing to the traffic mess.
The residents of Fatullah demanded that drivers and helpers, owners' associations and labour leaders should be aware and united to ease the traffic congestion on the Dhaka-Narayanganj DND road and the administration and the traffic police have to be vigilant in solving this problem.
2 friends die as motorbike crashes into tree in Chandpur
Two friends were killed as their motorcycle lost control and crashed into a tree in Faridganj upazila of the district on Thursday night.
The deceased were identified as Sajib Mridha, 17, son of Nannu Mridha at Charmothura village of the upazila and Ashik Mridha,18, son Jasim Mridha of the same area.
Quoting family members, Abdul Mannan, officer-in-charge (OC) of Faridganj police station, said the two friends left home on Thursday night to offer the first Taraweeh prayer at the New Model Mosque in Faridganj.
The accident occurred around 10 pm when their bike lost control and hit a roadside tree in the Charkumira area while returning home after offering Taraweeh, leaving Sajib dead on the spot.
Injured Ashik died on the way to the hospital, added the OC.
"On information, police rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies around 10:30 pm."
Both families took permission from the Additional Deputy Commissioner to bury the bodies without post-mortem. Later, the bodies were handed over to the families on Friday morning, said OC Abdul Mannan.
Local AL leader shot dead in Khulna
A local Awami League leader was gunned down by miscreants in Shiromani area of Khanjahan Ali Thana on Friday.
The deceased was identified as Sheikh Ansar Ali,43, former cultural secretary of Awami League's Dighlia upazila unit.
Md Kamal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Khanjahan Ali police station, said Ansar Ali was returning home after Jumma prayers. When he reached in front of Linda clinic, assailants opened fire on Ansar Ali, leaving him dead on the spot.
Police said that the deceased Ansar is accused in the murder case of Barakpur Union Chairman Zakir of Dighlia Upazila. However, the motive behind the killing could not be known immediately.
"On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Khulna Medical College Hospital for autopsy," added the OC.
Traders fined in Faridpur for selling meat in violation of price list
A mobile court in a drive fined several traders on different charges, including selling beef without following the price fixed by the government, at kitchen markets in Faridpur town on Friday.
Assistant Director of Consumer Rights Protection Department Md Sohel Sheikh conducted the drive at Purvakhabaspur, Chunaghata Beribadh Bazar, Khan Agro and Naim Enterprises this morning.
During the drive, the mobile court fined four traders Tk 9,000 for not having a price list, selling meat in an unhygienic environment, and not providing purchase and sale receipts to the customers.
The operations are being conducted to stabilize the meat market on the occasion of Ramadan, and this campaign will continue, said the consumer rights officer.
Nightguard dies under collapsed wall in Bogura
A 55-year-old man was killed and three others-including two children, were injured as a boundary wall collapsed on them at a madrasa in Sadar upazila’s Chakfarid area of Bogura early today.
The deceased was identified as Ainul Haq, a nightguard of the Jamil Madrasa and a resident of Charnandia's village of Sirajganj.
The injured are Mst. Mukta, 35, a parent of a student, and two students- Md. Hamim, 12, and Kahalur Md. Meftajul,5.
ASI Abdur Rahman of Bogura Sadar police station said a team of firefighters rescued and rushed them to the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College.
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According to locals, the boundary wall had been tilting outward for several months before the accident.
Legal action will be taken in accordance with the deceased’s family, police said.
2 arrested over murder of SSC examinees in Patuakhali
Two teenaged boys have been arrested in a case filed in connection with the murder of two students in Bauphal upazila of Patuakhali.
The arrestees are Sifat, 14 of Indrakul village of Suryamoni union of the upazila and Saikat, 14, from Kalaiya port, police said on Friday.
Victim Nafees' mother Nargis Begum filed the case with Bauphal Police Station.
A police operation is underway to arrest others involved in the murder, said Bauphal Officer-in-Charge Al Mamun.
On March 20, students of class 9 and 10 of Indrakul Secondary School got involved in a dispute over a foot injury. On Wednesday afternoon, after the farewell ceremony of Class 10 students at the school, Nafees, Maruf and Siam, were returning home when several people, including Raihan, 2 Nayeem, Hasibul, who were already on the bridge, attacked and stabbed them.
Locals rescued them and took them to Bauphal Hospital. After primary treatment, Nafees and Maruf were taken to Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital, where the on-duty doctors declared them dead. Siam is undergoing treatment at Bauphal Hospital.
The deceased were buried at their village home on Thursday (March 23) afternoon after autopsy.
Elderly man killed in city bus accident
A 70-year-old man was killed when a bus of Welcome Paribahan hit him while he was crossing the road.
The deceased was crossing the Gulistan GPO Maingate intersection at around 6:30 p.m. on Thursday when the bus hit him.
Police officers on patrol rushed him to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).
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The doctors pronounced him dead at around 7:15 p.m.
Inspector Bachchu Miah, in-charge of the DMCH police outpost, said on Friday the body was kept in the morgue for an autopsy.
Two dead, 2 injured as bus hits autorickshaw in Cumilla
Two people were dead and two were injured after a bus rammed into a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Cumilla's Daudkandi upazila on Friday morning.
The deceased were identified as Yakub Ali, 30, son of Billal Hossain at Malikhil village in Daudkandi upazila, and Jotsna Begum, 55, wife of Abul Kashem in Chhotana village of Devidwar upazila.
The injured Nusrat Jahan,7, and auto driver Mazarul,38, were first admitted to Gouripur Hospital. Later, they were sent to Dhaka as their condition deteriorated.
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Md Jahangir Alam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Daudkandi Highway Police Station, said a Cumilla-bound bus of Tisha Paribahan hit the auto-rickshaw in Dighirpar area on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway around 11:30 am, leaving Jotsna Begum dead on the spot.
Yakub Ali died on the way to the hospital, added the OC.
Police seized the bus but its driver and helper managed to flee the scene, said the officer, adding that legal action will be taken in this regard.
2 killed, 15 hurt on Barishal-Patharghata highway after bus crashes into tree
Two people were killed and at least 15 hurt on the Barishal-Patharghata highway Friday as a BRTC bus crashed into a tree in Rajapur upazila, the police said.
The deceased were identified as bus passenger Md Parvez, 35, and supervisor Md Mehedi, 45. Further details about them could not immediately be known.
Pulik Chandra Roy, officer-in-charge (OC) of Rajapur Police Station, said the accident occurred around 9:45am in the Kanudashkathi area after the Patharghata-bound bus hit a tree by the roadside following an altercation between the driver and the supervisor.
The supervisor and a passenger died at the scene and at least 15 other people, who boarded the bus, were injured, he said.
The injured were taken to Bhandaria Upazila Health Complex and Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital.
"On information, police and the fire service rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies. Legal action will be taken in connection with the accident," the OC said.
2 killed in Ctg as pickup van crashes into motorcycle
Two people were killed after a pickup van rammed into a motorcycle in Chattogram's Sitakunda upazila on Thursday afternoon.
The deceased were identified as Md Yusuf,34, son of Md Musa of Kalushah Nagar area of the upazila and Mohiuddin Raju,30, son of Md Aziz of Sholoshahar of Panchlaish thana of Chattogram.
Amir Uddin, sub-inspector of Baroawlia Highway Police Station, said that the accident occurred around 5 pm as a speeding van mowed a motorcycle in front of the BSRM factory on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, leaving two motorcyclists dead on the spot.
"On information, police rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies," he added.
The bodies were sent to a hospital morgue for autopsies, said the SI, adding that legal action will be taken in this regard.