SNIPPETS

380 kg hilsa seized in Satkhira
Unb, Satkhira

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 380 kilograms of hilsa while those were being smuggled out through Jhaudanga point in Sadar upazila on Sunday morning. Major Ahsan, operation officer of Satkhira BGB Battalion-38, said acting on secret information that a huge quantity of hilsa was being smuggled to India, a patrol team of BGB raided the area at about 8:00 am and intercepted a truck. Sensing the presence of the BGB members, the smugglers fled the scene, leaving behind the truck.

Jute godown gutted
Our Correspondent, Gaibandha

At least 700 maunds of raw jute were gutted in a fire at Jangalia village in Shaghata upazila early yesterday. It could not be immediately ascertained reason of the fire as it occurred when everybody in the area was asleep, fire service source said. Khaja Prodhan, owner of godown, claimed that miscreants intentionally set his godown on fire over past enmity.

Transport workers threaten strike
Staff Correspondent, Sylhet

Sylhet Zila Sarak Paribahan Malik-Sramik Oikya Parishad yesterday threatened to go for an indefinite transport strike on all the routes of the division from September 18, if their demands are not fulfilled immediately. They brought out a procession near Sylhet central Bus terminal in the moring in Kodomtoli area and submitted a memo to the DC of Sylhet. The demands include a ban on plying of auto-rickshaws and human haulers on the busy city streets, immediate repair of different roads and highways of the division, removal of unnecessary speed breakers, an end to harassment by police and withdrawal of BRTA's chief in Sylhet.

Boy murder triggers protest
Our Correspondent, Gaibandha

People of Balapara village in Sunderganj upazila brought out a procession and formed a human chain in the upazila headquarters on Sunday, demanding capital punishment to the killers of five-year-old boy Shuvo. Expressing their solidarity, traders and shop owners of the municipality area pulled their shutters down and joined the agitation. We want exemplary punishment of the criminals under speedy trial act so that nobody dares to commit such crime again, the speakers at the programme said. According to the case statement, unidentified criminals abducted Shuvo Mia, son of Ashek Ali Master from in front of his house on September 8 and later killed for ransom.