Bus operations from Chittagong to Cox's Bazar and Bandarban was
suspended for five hours yesterday as the city's transport workers
observed a work stoppage demanding arrest of some Bangladesh Chhatra
League activists who allegedly attacked three staff for a ticket.
Operations resumed on the routes around 3:00pm after police officials at a meeting "assured" transport leaders of taking action against the perpetrators.
In the meantime, scores of passengers suffered.
Debashish Biswas had to wait for two hours at the Bahaddarhat bus counter till the operations resumed at 3:00pm. “If I did not have an emergency, I might have returned home," he told The Daily Star.
Md Musa, president of the Chittagong unit of Bangladesh Transport Workers' Federation, said, “BCL activists led by its Chittagong city unit Organising Secretary Mayeen Shahriar beat three staff of a counter of S Alam bus service at Chandgaon around 10:00am.
Operations resumed on the routes around 3:00pm after police officials at a meeting "assured" transport leaders of taking action against the perpetrators.
In the meantime, scores of passengers suffered.
Debashish Biswas had to wait for two hours at the Bahaddarhat bus counter till the operations resumed at 3:00pm. “If I did not have an emergency, I might have returned home," he told The Daily Star.
Md Musa, president of the Chittagong unit of Bangladesh Transport Workers' Federation, said, “BCL activists led by its Chittagong city unit Organising Secretary Mayeen Shahriar beat three staff of a counter of S Alam bus service at Chandgaon around 10:00am.
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