Human chain demands arrest of attackers
Transport workers in Lalmonirhat formed a human chain on Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway yesterday, protesting the attack on one of their leaders and demanding arrest of the culprits involved in the incident.
Several hundred workers of district Truck and Tank Lorry Sramik Union and Bus-Minibus Sramik Union took part in the programme, organised in front of the district central bus terminal in the town yesterday noon.
Speakers at the programme alleged that an identified group had been launching attacks on the transport workers and leaders to take control their union for long.
Transport workers' leader Bappi Islam said identified goons equipped with lethal weapons attacked Ratan Miah, vice-president of the district Truck and Tank Lorry Workers' Union, and its general secretary Abul Kalam Azad in the bus terminal area on 2 November, leaving them severely injured.
If the attackers are not arrested immediately they would go for a tougher movement soon, he added.
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