Transport workers attack police station, block roads
At least 10 people, including two policemen, were injured when local transport workers attacked the Sadar Police Station yesterday, protesting the arrest of a fellow worker in connection with a murder case.
At around 11:00am, police detained local transport worker Mongal Talukdar, 45, a resident of Chhoyna village in the upazila, for not giving his deposition before the court as key witness in a murder case, said Abu Bakar Siddique, additional superintendent of police in Madaripur.
Following Mongal's arrest, Khairul Hasan Liton, a leader of the district transport union, phoned Emdadul Haque, officer in-charge of Sadar Police Station, and requested him to release Mongal.
The OC, however, did not pay heed to the request and kept Mongal in police custody.
Protesting the incident, district transport workers blocked Madaripur-Shariatpur road and Dhaka-Barisal highway around 12:00noon and vandalised the delivery centre, doors and windowpanes of the Sadar Police Station.
They also besieged the police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members at the police station.
Later, the law enforcers fired 20 rounds of rubber bullet to disperse the agitating workers that left 10 people, including two police men injured.
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