FENI: Leaders and activists of ruling Juba League and Chhatra League on Wednesday blocked the Feni-Poshuram regional road protesting the killing of Fulgazi upazila Chairman Ekramul Haque Ekram, also upazila Awami League president.
They created blockades on the road by putting bricks and wood logs that brought a halt to the vehicular movement there.
The demonstrators vandalized a journalist’s microbus and demanded the trial of local lawmaker Nizam Uddin Hazari, also district Awami League general secretary.
Fulgazi thana Officer-In-Charge Nasir Uddin Ahmed confirmed the matter to banglanews.
Police and Border Guard members have been deployed in the area to bring the situation under control.
In a filmy style, miscreants shot Ekramul and burnt to death at his own car in Academy area of the district town on Tuesday.
Ekramul was laid to rest at the family graveyard at his paternal home in Dowlatpur of the Fulgazi upazila on Wednesday.
BDST: 1450 HRS MAY 21, 2014