Student protesters have returned to the streets in Dhaka for the seventh straight day braving rains and demanding safe roads.
Demonstrations are being held in at least 20 locations across Dhaka with students regulating traffic, checking documents of drivers and vehicles as part of their campaign for safer roads.
Students, mostly from Dhaka schools and colleges and later joined by those from universities, poured on the streets since a speeding bus ran over and killed two college students waiting for transport on Jul 29.
Around 1,000 students have gathered on the Manik Mia Avenue in front of the National Parliament, when they formed a human chain with placards in hands and raising slogans. They also continued to regulate traffic.
Around 10am, demonstrations started at Farmgate, where students made vehicles to drive on designated lanes.
Hundreds of students have blocked the Science Lab intersection on the Mirpur road only allowing ambulances and patients to pass.
Demonstrations at the capital’s major intersection of Shahbagh started around 10:30am, with students controlling traffic and checking documents of drivers and vehicles.
Protests have been reported from the capital’s northern end of Uttara, where students have been demonstrating on the road amid heavy police presence.