30km long tailback on Dhaka-Ctg highway

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Staff Reporter :Hundreds of passenger buses, trucks and covered vans remained stuck on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway till Friday noon due to a disorder covered van on the Meghna Bridge. The goods laden covered van went out of order on the bridge at Shahidnagar under Daudkandi Upazila in Comilla district at around 2:00am on Thursday. Though the van was removed at night, the traffic jam, which developed, rather intensified on Friday morning due to dense fog, creating untold sufferings to passengers, particularly women and kids.Bhoberchar Highway Police Sergeant Saiful Islam told the journalists that the stuck vehicles began to move in rows slowly from 1:00pm.

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