Road Blockade, Hartal
Govt to compensate 2 injured drivers
The government will compensate two drivers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a pick-up van who sustained burn injures during the recent road blockade and countrywide hartal enforced by the BNP-led 18 party alliance.
The government will provide them with new auto-rickshaw and pick-up van; and bear treatment expenses, Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir told journalists while visiting the victims at Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday.
Picketers set fire on the auto-rickshaw of Shahadat Hossain at Hemayatpur in Savar, and the pick-up van of Khokon at Nayabazar in the capital on Sunday and Monday night respectively.
The government will not spare the instigators of the subversive activities, the home minister said.
State Minister for Home Shamsul Haque Tuku and Inspector General of Police Hassan Mahmood Khandker were also present during the visit.
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