Reckless driving of buses at Shahbagh and Matsya Bhaban intersections continued yesterday even after the horrific deaths of two schoolgirls in the areas on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Traffic police appeared to be helpless in controlling the chaos.<\/p>\n
Buses were seen stopping abruptly, violating traffic rules, in the middle of the streets to pick up and drop off passengers, while passengers were getting on and off moving buses, risking their lives.<\/p>\n
Although there are three foot bridges at Shahbagh intersection alone, only a small number of people were seen using those. Many were seen crossing the streets through moving traffic.<\/p>\n
Traffic sergeants and constables, on the other hand, were ignoring this standing nearby at the two busy intersections.<\/p>\n
Sixty-year-old Abul Kalam had mistakenly got on a Farmgate-bound bus from Gulistan. He was supposed to go to Science Laboratory area. When he told the conductor about this, the conductor pushed him out of the bus in the middle of the road at Shahbagh.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could have been killed as the bus was still moving, albeit slowly,\u201d Kalam told The Daily Star. He had two heavy bags with him.<\/p>\n
Within a span of eight hours on Saturday, schoolgirls Sabiha Akhter Sonali and Khadija Sultana Mitu died in separate accidents in front of the High Court and at Shahbagh intersection.<\/p>\n
As Sonali was trying to cross the street, a bus of Jatrabari-Farmgate-Gabtali route ran over her in the morning, leaving her dead on the spot.<\/p>\n
Khadija, who came to the city from Comilla, was crushed to death under a bus at Shahbagh intersection while trying to cross the street along with her sister and brother-in-law.<\/p>\n
Talking to these correspondents yesterday noon, traffic sergeants at Shahbagh police box expressed their helplessness in controlling traffic in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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