Tailback on Dhaka-Tangail highway yet to ease
Army men finally succeeded in lifting onto the road the tank-carrying lorry that had fallen into a roadside ditch at Jamurki in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail on Saturday.
However, the two-day rescue operation created kilometres-long tailback on the Dhaka-Tangail highway from Gorai of Mirzapur upazila to Baoikhola of Basail upazila, much to the sufferings of passengers.
The army men under the direction of Lt Col Mohammad Taher from the Engineering Core of Savar Cantonment conducted the rescue operation, lifted the 30-tonne tank and the truck onto the road yesterday evening.
The army truck carrying a tank going to Rajendrapur Cantonment in Gazipur from Jamuna Cantonment near the Bangabandhu Bridge fell into a 30-feet-deep ditch while giving side to a passenger bus at Jamurki, leaving three army men injured, said Sub-inspector Mamun Miah of Gorai Highway Police Station.
Hundreds of vehicles got stranded in the tailback on the narrow highway as the army men started rescue operation with their own wrecker, blocking a side of the road on Sunday noon, said drivers and locals.
The strenuous task took a long time and the traffic jam worsened, causing untold sufferings to the passengers, mostly the ones returning to the capital from northern districts after celebrating the Eid-ul-Azha.
"I along with family members was going to Dhaka after celebrating Eid at my village home but our bus has remained stranded at Natiapara for the last four hours due to the traffic jam," said Mohammad Rabbani, a service holder returning from Dinajpur, yesterday afternoon.
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