(UTV|COLOMBO) Dhaka remained largely cut off from the rest of Bangladesh on Friday, with local and long-distance buses staying off the roads after five days of protests by young people demanding safer streets.
The protests, which began Sunday after two college students were struck and killed by a pair of buses, eventually paralyzed the city, with tens of thousands of demonstrators blocking roads.
Three teenage boys have died after a car ploughed into a bus stop. Police were called to Shepiston Lane in Hayes at 8.41pm on Friday night following reports of a road traffic collision.
Students also stopped thousands of private vehicles including those of top officials and judges demanding to see if the cars were registered and the drivers licensed. One minister had to abandon his vehicle in the street after protesters found that his paperwork was not in order, according to news reports.
There was no sign of mass protests Friday, the beginning of the country’s weekend, but dozens of people formed a human chain in front of the main press club in Dhaka to call for transportation reform.
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