GAZIPUR, May 3: Bus movement on the Dhaka-Gazipur route has remained suspended since Friday morning following a clash between students of Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET) and transport workers in Gazipur Sadar upazila on Thursday night.
Bus passengers were bearing the brunt of it, as no buses from the Gazipur Bus Stand left for Dhaka as of filing this report around 11:00 am on Friday.
However, bus movement on other routes from Gazipur remained normal.
Nandalal Chowdhury, inspector (investigation) of Sadar Police Station under Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP), said two Duet students narrowly escaped a road accident late Thursday night when a bus hit one of the motorbikes carrying them from behind in the bus stand area on their way to campus from the Shibbari intersection.
Later, an altercation broke out between the students and the transport workers, centring on the matter, he said.
As the news of the clash spread on the Duet campus, aggrieved students from the university rushed to the spot, carried out an attack on the workers, and vandalised the windows of some buses, the inspector also said. —UNB
