Local Awami League activists yesterday staged demonstrations and blocked Dhaka-Tangail highway with the body of slain Jubo League leader Rafiqul Islam demanding immediate arrest of his killers.
They put barricade on the busy highway in Kaliakoir bus stand area in Kaliakoir upazila at noon when the body reached was brought home after an autopsy. During the demonstrations the upazila Awami League called a half day hartal in the upazila.
On Friday, Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, former president of Kaliakoir upazila unit of Jubo League was killed in an infighting during a programme marking the National Mourning Day and August 21 grenade attack anniversary at Chandra in Kaliakoir upazila.