Long-route communications across Bangladesh remained virtually cut off on Sunday, on the first day of the non-cooperation movement announced by the leaders of the Student Movement against Discrimination, demanding the resignation of the Sheikh Hasina-led government.
No long-route buses and trains ran across the country while very few launches and ferries plied on the day.
Protesters blocked different highways in different districts on the day.
Only a handful of public transports, other vehicles and people were seen on roads in the capital on the day.
At least 91 people were killed on Sunday across the country in the wake of violent clashes among protesters, members of law-enforcement agencies and members of ruling party and its associate organisations on the first day of the non-cooperation movement.
With Sunday鈥檚 deaths, the death toll in the violence during the protests between July 16 and August 4 reached over 300.
Since Saturday afternoon no long route buses started for any destination from Dhaka.
Mohakhali Bus Terminal Owners Association president Abul Kalam said on Sunday that since Saturday afternoon no long route buses from Mohakhali, Gabtoli and Saidabad terminals left Dhaka.
鈥楾he bus owners are not running buses fearing vandalism,鈥� he said.
Kalam, also executive president of the Dhaka Road Transport Owners Association, said that very few city service buses ran on the capital roads on the day.
Only a handful of CNG-run auto rickshaws, cars, motorcycles and other vehicles were seen on the Dhaka roads in the morning which also became scarce in the afternoon as clashes had spread across the city.
The protesters blocked the Mayor Mohammad Hanif flyover area in Jatrabari from Sunday morning, preventing vehicles from crossing the area to travel on the Dhaka-Chattogram, Dhaka-Narayanganj and Dhaka-Mawa highways.聽
抖阴精品 correspondent in Jahangirnagar University reported that the protesting students from the university, nearby colleges and other universities on the day blocked the Dhaka-Aricha highway for about two and a half hours.
They sat on the highway from about 11:50am to about 2:30pm and chanted slogans to press home their one-point demand of resignation of the Awami League government.
Our correspondent in Manikganj reported that the protesters in the district also blocked the Dhaka-Aricha highway in the morning by setting tyres on fire.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Narsingdi reported that students gathered at Jail Khana intersection on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in the town at about 1:00pm on the day and blocked the highway till filing of the report at 7:00pm.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Patuakhali reported that the protesters blocked the Patuakhali-Dhaka highway on Sunday morning.
Bangladesh Railway did not run any trains on the day for 鈥榰navoidable reasons鈥�.
Earlier railway resumed services of trains on short distances from August 1 after all train services were halted for 10 days.
Very few launches plied on the day, said Bangladesh Inland Water Passenger Carrier Association vice-president Badiuzzaman Badal.
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority joint director (Sadarghat terminal) Alamgir Kabir said that on the day till 7:00pm 32 launches arrived and 18 departed from the terminal. Usually, 60 launches on average arrived and 70 left every day, said the joint director.
BIWTA deputy general manager (Aricha Ghat) Shah Khaled Newaz said that very few transports arrived for crossing the river on the day.聽
Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport executive director M Kamrul Islam, meanwhile, in a message said that all international and domestic flights from the airport continued uninterrupted and no international flights and domestic flights were cancelled till 8:00pm on the day.
