Train communications between Dinajpur-Khulna and Dinajpur-Rajshahi came to a halt for about two hours yesterday as some train masters went on a sudden strike protesting the attack on two of their colleagues by smugglers.
Parbatipur Station Master Sheikh Abdul Jabbar said a gang of smugglers, who were in guise of passengers, beat up Rajshahi bound train Uttara Mail’s master Mozammel Hoque and his assistant Abdul Jalil in Bagdanga area in Jessore around 6:00am when they didn’t stop the train as per signal of some accomplices of the gang down here to carry Indian smuggled goods, leaving the former injured.
Later, Mozammel was admitted to Joypurhat Sadar Hospital.
Angered by the attack, about 8-10 locomotive masters from the station went on a flash work abstention stopping train communications on the routes from around 7:25am.
However, the train communications resumed as the higher authorities assured the agitating masters of taking legal actions against the culprits.
Due to the strike, Rajshahi bound “Borendra Express” and Khulna bound “Rupsha Express” stopped on the way, creating suffering to the commuters
Emdadul Haque, inspector of Hakimpur government railway police (GRP), said they arrested two people in connection with the incident and trying to nab the rest culprits.
