Residents in the capital’s Rayerbagh area blocked the Dhaka-Chattogram highway recently demanding an uninterrupted household gas supply in their area.
They kept the highway blocked for over an hour, halting vehicular movement on the highway at Rayerbagh and causing long tailbacks and suffering to the commuters as the buses of inter-city services could not move during the protest, the police said.
Quoting local people’s allegation, the police said that residents of Rayerbagh were not getting gas supply in their households for the past eight to 10 days.
The everyday lives of the residents in the area were severely hampered due to the lack of household gas supply, which prompted them to stage the street demonstration, said the police.
Jatrabari police station officer-in-charge Mohammad Raju said that on information, the police rushed to the spot and talked with the protesters.
