Students from different schools and colleges formed a human chain and blocked the Dhaka-Mawa highway, at Rejendrapur in South Keraniganj, demanding justice for the two siblings killed in a road accident.
They also demanded the immediate arrest of—and capital punishment for—the truck driver responsible for the children’s death, on Thursday, reports UNB.
South Keraniganj police station Officer-in-Charge Shahjamal said: "Several hundred students from different schools and colleges had put up barricades on the Dhaka-Mawa highway. This resulted in the disruption of traffic for half an hour."
However, when police removed the students from the highway, they formed a human chain around 10:30am, lining both sides of the road, and chanted slogans demanding the arrest of the truck driver.
Locals joined the students’ human chain.
Previously, on Monday, Afifa Akter Afrin, 13, a fourth-grader of Hasnabad Cosmopolitan School and College —and her brother Afsar Ahmed, 10, also a fourth grader of the same school—were killed when a truck hit a motorbike at the Rajendrapur Mollar Pool area in South Keraniganj.
Their father, who was driving the motorcycle, was also injured in the accident.