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Death In Accident

Mob blocks road, damages vehicles in Barisal

9 February 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Barisal

An angry mob put up a barricade on Dhaka-Barisal road in the city and damaged two vehicles following death of a trader in a road accident near Sadar Upazila Parishad office yesterday. The victim was identified as Abdul Mutalib Howladar, owner of Ripon Traders, near the upazila parishad office. As a sand-laden truck hit Motalib on the road when he was going to his shop on a bicycle in the morning, Motalib died on the spot, police quoted locals as saying. Locals blocked the road and damaged an oil tanker and a pick up van. The agitators withdrew the barricade at around 11:00am after police assured them of arresting the truck driver who fled the scene soon after the accident. Police seized the truck and sent the body to hospital.