The indefinite work abstention enforced by transport workers in protest against the vandalism of buses centring the death of a boy in a road accident has been called off.
Ali Akbar, assistant general secretary of Sylhet District Bus, Minibus, Coach, and Microbus Workers’ Union, confirmed the matter on Tuesday night saying, the strike was withdrawn following a meeting at the Office of Sylhet Deputy Commissioner in the evening.
At the meeting, it was decided that no cases would be filed in connection with the death of the boy, the buses seized by mobs would be handed over to the bus owners soon and no attacks would be carried out on bus drivers and labours, he said.
On Sunday morning, a group of children was playing football near Kamalganj Abdul Matin Community Center in Zakiganj upazila. A speeding bus ran over a boy named Abir Ahmed who went to the Sylhet-Zakiganj road to fetch the ball after it had gone there.
The accident left him critically injured and he was rushed to a local hospital where physicians declared him dead.
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Enraged by it, locals and others vandalised three buses, prompting the transport workers to suspend bus services.
The workers’ union called for the strike on Sunday afternoon and enforced it from Monday morning.
The transport workers claimed that, in addition to the bus involved in the accident, at least three other buses were also damaged during the protests.