A Barisal court sent the bus driver, Abdul Jalil, to jail involved in the killing of seven passengers of a motorized three-wheeler—including a child and two women – in Barisal-Banaripara road on Friday.
Barisal Metropolitan Magistrate Wali Afroz passed the order after the hearing when Barisal Airport police produced him before the court on Saturday morning.
The bus driver was arrested from his house at Chandpasha area of Barishal's Babuganj upazila early Saturday, said Barisal Airport police station OC Abdur Rahman Mukur.
Police filed a murder case against him.
The accident occurred on the Barisal-Banaripara road near the Tetultala area around 9:30am on Friday, as a bus collided head-on with a three-wheeler killing sever and injuring four people. Immediately after the accident, Abdul Jalil fled the scene.
Road transport workers protest
Hearing the arrest of the driver, road transport workers took to streets, halting plying of buses in all the routes from Barisal from 10am, demanding immediate release of Abdul Jalil.
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However the strike was called off after holding a meeting with the ruling party Awami league leaders and administrative officials, assuring justice through trial, said Jahangir Hossain, secretary of the Barisal Bus Workers Association.
Later, road transport workers resumed transport operation from 12pm Saturday.
Students block Dhaka-Barisal Highway
Meanwhile, students of Govt BM College protested on Saturday, demanding maximum penalty for the bus driver involved in Friday's road accident in Barisal.
One of the victims was an MA student of the college.
Agitated students blocked the Dhaka-Barisal Highway for about two hours, halting traffic on the busy road. They brought out a procession from the campus before putting up barricades on the highway at Notullabad around 10am.
Police visited the spot and requested the protesters to end their demonstration, said Kotwali police station OC Nurul Islam.
The students called off their protests after Barisal City Mayor Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah assured them that justice will be done, the OC added.
Seven people, including Shila Haldar, 24, an MA student, were killed after a bus of “Durjoy Paribahan” hit a human hauler in city's Tetultala area on Friday morning.