A strike by transport workers to protest the lynching of a driver by a section of bus passengers has paralysed transport services in Sylhet. Bus services between Dhaka and the eastern city has been stopped. But buses from Sylhet are running on other routes. Sylhet Road Transport Workers’ Union President Selim Ahmed Falik said that the strike, which started from 6am on Wednesday, will end at 6pm. No untoward incident was reported so far from anywhere in the district, said Sylhet’s Superintendent of Police Nure Alam Mia. Forty-year-old Babul Chandra Dey Shibu, driver of a bus operated by Shyamoli Paribahan, was beaten up by passengers on Monday night, which left him unconscious. A delay in starting the Sylhet-bound bus at the capital’s Sayedabad upset a section of bus passengers. At one stage, the unruly passengers mercilessly beat up the bus driver. Shibu was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the doctors declared him dead, according to bdnews24.com.
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