Traffic on Sylhet-Tamabil-Jaflong highway remained suspended since Tuesday morning as local people put up barricade at Jaintia Gate protesting frequent road accidents on the highway.
Local people under the banner of residents of Chiknagul Union, took to the road around 11 am and blocked the highway.
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The protesters demanded punishment of those involved in different road accidents in the past six months after arrest, driving of vehicles by unlicensed driver and under-age driver, conducting mobile court drive on the highway twice in a month, stopping transportation of cattle, buffalo and smuggled goods by pick-up vans, taking steps to stop movement of unauthorised CNG-run auto-rickshaw and movement of human haulers on highways.
Jaintapur Upazila Nirbahi Officer Sajedul Islam, Assistant superintendent of Gowainghat-Companiganj circle Shahidur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Jaintapur Model Policed Station Tajul Islam, Traffic Inspector of District Police Rafique Ahmed and Chiknagul union unit Awami League President Abul Hasan Chowdhury rushed to the spot and tried to settle the issue.
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Earlier on Monday, six people including three members of a family were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a pick-up van and hauman hauler on Sylhet-Tamabil highway at Darbast.