Transport workers blocked Dhaka-Bogra Highway at Banani intersection in Bogra at 10am Tuesday, protesting the death of the truck driver who succumbed to his injuries from violence during Jamaat-e-Islami’s 48-hour general strike.
All of the three severely burned drivers have died of their injuries reported on Monday.
Among the three Truck drivers, Samsu, 55, was going to Panchagarh from Shirajganj with a truck loaded with fertiliser. When he stopped for a break near the Bogra-Shahjahanpur road on Wednesday night, a group of hartal activists attacked the truck and set it ablaze.
The Truck Shramik Union of Bogra organised the two-hour long blockade and demanded punishment of those involved in the attack. They gave an ultimatum demanding the arrest of the killers by September 30.