Bus strike over assault of staff

Bus services between Dhaka and ten districts of Khulna division were suspended yesterday afternoon due to a sudden indefinite strike enforced by transport owners and workers.
Bangladesh Bus Owners' and Workers' Association enforced the strike, protesting the criminal attack on the counter of Eagle Paribahan at Gabtoli bus terminal in the capital.
Pabitra Kapuria -- central vice-president of the Bus Owners' Association, and also the owner of Eagle Paribahan -- said a bus of Eagle Paribahan hit a youth named Motiar in Gabtoli area on Wednesday night, leaving him dead.
Following the incident, some youths had attacked the workers of the bus at the terminal yesterday noon, he said, adding that the unruly youths had also taken away five buses of the transport company, and shut the counter.
In protest against the attack, the bus owners and workers had gone on strike from the afternoon, Pabitra added.
Azizul Alam Mintu, president of Bangladesh Paribahan Sangstha Sramik Samity, said the strike would continue until the government takes actions against the attackers.
The districts that are cut off from the capital include Jessore, Khulna, Bagerhat, Satkhira, Narail, Magura, Jhenidah, Kushtia, Meherpur and Chuadanga.