Indefinite transport strike in Khulna division from tomorrow

Transport workers has called an indefinite strike in 10 districts of Khulna division from tomorrow protesting the jail sentence of a bus driver for a road crash that killed Tareque Masud, Mishuk Munier and three others in 2011.

Khulna regional committee of Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation called the strike today protesting bus driver Jamir Hossain’s life term imprisonment, reports our Magura correspondent.

“The strike will be enforced from 6:00am tomorrow,” Khulna Committee President Emdadur Rahman told The Daily Star over phone after the meeting in Jessore today.

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“No engine-run vehicle will be allowed to ply the roads during the strike,” he said.

The 10 districts are: Bagerhat, Chuadanga, Jessore, Jhenaidah, Khulna, Kushtia, Magura, Meherpur, Narail and Satkhira.

On February 22, a Manikganj court sentenced bus driver Jamir Hossain to life in prison in the case.

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Noted filmmaker Tareque Masud and media personality Ashfaque Munier Mishuk popularly known as Mishuk Munier, along with three others died in a road crash on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Joka area of Ghior upazila in Manikganj on August 13, 2011.