Battery-run auto-rickshaw drivers on Tuesday blocked the busy Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur for three hours protesting the killing of one of their fellows allegedly by bus workers on Monday.
The protest continued till 11am starting 8 am on the highway in Gargaria Master Bari area under Sreepur upazila of Gazipur, witnesses said.
The commuters were the worst suffers due to the blockade as vehicular movement came to a halt on both sides of the highway.
Sources said a looking glass of a Taqwa Paribahan bus broke when it hit an auto-rickshaw from behind in the Gargaria Master Bari area on Monday afternoon, leading to an argument between the bus helpers and the auto-rickshaw driver.
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At one stage, the bus helpers took away the driver in their bus and left his body in Natun Bazar area allegedly after killing him.
Officer-in-Charge of Sreepur police station Joynal Abedin Mandol said the auto-rickshaw driver died after he was thrown off from the moving bus.
A murder case was filed with the police station in this regard, he said, adding that drives were underway to arrest those involved in the killing.