The
protesters set fire to a tyre at Dhaka intersection on Dhaka-Dinajpur
highway in Phulbari upazila of Dinajpur during a daylong hartal Saturday
morning
Several
thousand of people blocked the Dinajpur-Dhaka highway at different
points in Phulbari upazila of Dinajpur since Saturday morning as part of
a daylong hartal enforced by oil, gas protection committee. Transport movement on the highway remained suspended since 6:00am following the blockade, reports our Dinajpur correspondent.
The agitated people also torched tyres at different points on the highway.
Train movement also remained suspended for half an hour from 10:00am as the pro-hartal activists blocked railway tracks felling trees near Phulbari Railway Station, which links a number of districts of northern and southern regions with Dhaka and other parts of the country.
The train movement resumed when the agitators removed the trees from the tracks on request of local police.
National Committee for Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Port and Power Protection called the hartal in face of the section 144 imposed by the government to foil their meeting, which was scheduled for Friday afternoon protesting the government decision to let Asia Energy resume its survey in coal mine area.
All educational institutions, business establishments and most shops remain closed in the upazila since morning.
Additional police have been posted at different points in the upazila to avert any untoward incident, said Biman Karmakar, assistant superintendent of police of Dinajpur.
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