Protesters, including students, on Saturday blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh national highway in the Porabari area under the Gazipur city for about an hour protesting at the death of a student who died after being pushed from a bus.
They demanded justice for the college student died on May 8 after he was pushed from a moving bus during argument over the bus fare in the same area.
During the demonstration on the highway, vehicles and passengers were seen stranded on the road and suffered due to traffic gridlock.
The students also allegedly vandalised a bus.
According to the police sources and locals, Siam, 19, a Class XI student of local Rover Scout School and College was returning home on Thursday night by a Taqwa Paribahan minibus.
On the way, he locked into altercation with the bus driver鈥檚 assistant over the fare and at one stage the assistant pushed him from the moving bus in the Porabari area on the highway.
When Siam fell on the road the bus ran over him, leaving him dead on the spot.
Protesting at the incident, his fellows and locals gathered in the Porabari area at around 11:00am and staged a demonstration demanding immediate arrest and punishment of the bus driver and his assistant.
The protesters alleged that Siam had been murdered in a planned way.
When the protesters blocked the highway, they vandalised a Taqwa Paribahan minibus.
On both sides of the highway, vehicular movement also came to a complete halt.
Gazipur Metropolitan Police sadar thana officer-in-charge Mehedi Hasan said that on information they went to the spot.
The demonstrators put off the blockade on the highway at around 12:00pm after getting assurance that their demands would be met, he said.
He added that the movement of vehicles resumed immediately after the protesters left the area.
