Angered by a road accident that killed a school student, local people blockade the Dhaka-Mawa Highway and vandalized over 100 vehicles yesterday.
Witnesses said, a private car ran over Raju, 10, a Class IV student of Somospur Primary School, at Uttar Medinimondon in Louhajang upazila around12 noon.
Raju, alongwith his brother Siam, 12, and father was waiting on the roadside to cross the road when the Mawa-bound car from Dhaka ran over them, leaving the siblings seriously injured. Raju died on the way to Mitford Hospital in Dhaka.
Soon after, the accident, local people caught the car driver and put up barricade on the road and vandalized over 100 vehicles.
