Cuet protests: 48-hour transport strike in Ctg called from 6am tomorrow

*The Greater Chattogram Public Transport Owners and Workers Unity Council today (27 April) called a 48-hour transport strike amid the ongoing student protests over the deaths of two Chattogram University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) students.* "The strike will be effective from tomorrow 6:00am and will continue for the next 48 hours," the council's member secretary Mohammad Musa said at a meeting this afternoon. "Despite the resolution of the incident over the deaths of two Cuet students, our vehicles were still set on fire at Cuet. We have outlined a four-point demand for the safety of our property and transport workers," he added. On Monday, two Cuet students — Shanto Saha, a third-year student and Tawfiq Hasan, a second-year student of the civil engineering department — died when a bus of Shah Amanat Paribahan hit the motorcycle they were on on the Chattogram-Kaptai road at Zianagar in Rangunia upazila. Since then, the university students began protesting with a 10-point list of demands. On 24 April, the police arrested the bus driver involved in the incident. On 25 April, the Cuet authorities announced an indefinite closure of the university. Angered by this decision, protesting students locked the vice-chancellor's office and set fire to one of the two buses confiscated by them.
Published on: 2024-04-27 15:29:25.526367 +0200 CEST