FROM GABTOLI TERMINAL: Hundreds of commuters remained stranded as the transport owners and workers are enforcing strike in south-western districts.

Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, the strike was imposed as a protest of arresting transport workers over a robbery in a Sohag Paribahan passenger bus at Madhukhali in Faridpur on Monday night.

Bus communication on Aricha-Doulatdia route remained halted, leaving hundreds of passengers in dire sufferings.

Transport workers alleged that driver and helper of the robbed Sohag Paribahan bus went to a local police station for filing general diary (GD) on the robbery. But police detained the complainers. Moreover, police also detained a ticket checker of the bus over the robbery incident.

A Gopalganj-bound passenger Faridur Rahman, who was waiting for a long at Gabtoli bus terminal with his mother Sahela Khatun, wife Salma and a child Sajib, told banglanews that they had come from Chittagong. They are not getting any assurance of bus service to Gopalganj.

A Barisal-bound passenger Arifuzzaman Mridha, who had been waiting for around 14-hours, said that he came to Dhaka to join a job. But he has been posted in Barisal.

‘I have been stranded in the area,’ he added.

A Sohag Paribahan counter-master Monowar Hossain told banglanews that they did not get any permission of running their passenger buses.

Dhaka district transport workers union president Abbas Uddin said that they expect to run buses after the release of the detainees.

BDST: 1718 HRS, MAY 20, 2015
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