Dhaka – Several hundred students on Thursday formed human
chain in Dhaka to demand improved road safety despite they postponed their mass
protest until March 28.
Thousands of protesters on Wednesday took to the streets after
a fellow student, Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury of University of Professionals, was run
over by a speeding bus on Tuesday. But they suspended the demos after the
authorities assured that their demands would be met shortly.
The students of different private universities stood hand in
hand in front Jamuna Future Park on Pragati Sarani after police prevented them from
blocking the road in the morning.
The protesters said they would keep on pressing the
government to accept their demands, otherwise the demands will not be respected.
In 2018, hundreds of thousands of students took to the
streets after two pupils were crashed by a passenger bus on Dhaka’s busy
airport road. The series of protests demanding enhanced road safety lasted for
more than a week from July 29 to August 8.
Lax implementation of law, poor road infrastructure, reckless
driving and lack of awareness by the road users put Bangladesh among countries with
the highest road fatality rate.
More than 7,000 people killed and over 15,000 others injured
in road crashes in 2018, according to a report by civic group Bangladesh
Passenger Welfare Organisation.
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