UNB, Narayanganj :
Road communication on Dhaka-Chattogram highway remained suspended for four hours as local people put-up barricade on the highway following the injuries of a schoolgirl in a road accident at Kanchpur in Sonargaon upazila on Thursday.
Mohammad Khorshed Alam, additional superintendent of Narayanganj police, said Sadia Akter, 15, a class IX student of Kanchpur Omar Ali High School, sustained injured when a Tarabo-bound bus hit her in the area around 7 am.
As the news spread, the students of the school along with locals put up a barricade on Dhaka-Chattogram highway, halting traffic movement on the busy road.
The agitating students vandalised 10-12 vehicles and set a vehicle afire following the accident, he added.
Several thousand people have been suffering since morning as a 10-12-kilometre-long tailback stretching from Meghna Bridge to Signboard point in Narayanganj was created following the incident.
Road communication on Dhaka-Chattogram highway remained suspended for four hours as local people put-up barricade on the highway following the injuries of a schoolgirl in a road accident at Kanchpur in Sonargaon upazila on Thursday.
Mohammad Khorshed Alam, additional superintendent of Narayanganj police, said Sadia Akter, 15, a class IX student of Kanchpur Omar Ali High School, sustained injured when a Tarabo-bound bus hit her in the area around 7 am.
As the news spread, the students of the school along with locals put up a barricade on Dhaka-Chattogram highway, halting traffic movement on the busy road.
The agitating students vandalised 10-12 vehicles and set a vehicle afire following the accident, he added.
Several thousand people have been suffering since morning as a 10-12-kilometre-long tailback stretching from Meghna Bridge to Signboard point in Narayanganj was created following the incident.
