The authorities said on Sunday that services of the metro rail in the capital would be resumed at least one week later when the situation would improve.
Since Saturday the authorities have closed services of the metro rail for an indefinite period considering 鈥榩ublic safety鈥�.
During a visit to the metro rail鈥檚 Kazipara station on the day, Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited managing director MAN Siddique made the comment.聽
Quoting him, DMTCL deputy director Tarafder Mahmudur Rahman said that when the situation would be improved, it would take at least seven more days to resume the metro rail services.
In the ongoing situation two metro rail stations at Mirpur 10 and Kazipara had been vandalised and fire was set, he added.
At least 136 people were killed, mostly in Dhaka, between July 16 and 20 while staging protests demanding the reform of quotas in government jobs.
Several thousand people were also injured during the protests.
Clashes erupted between protesters and law enforcers accompanied by ruling Awami League activists in the capital and many other places across the country.
Students鈥� Movement against Discrimination, a platform of anti-quota protesters, has been enforcing a complete shutdown across the country since July 18.聽
Earlier, metro rail services in Dhaka were shortened by four hours on July 18 by stopping the services at 5:30pm for the sake of public safety.
Usually the metro rail services are available till 9:30pm.
The 20.1-kilometre-long Mass Rapid Transit Line鈥�6 project, popularly known as the metro rail, was inaugurated on the 11.73-kilometre-long Uttara鈥揂gargaon section on December 28, 2022.
The services of the country鈥檚 first-ever electricity-powered elevated and air-conditioned rail system from Agargaon to Motijheel were inaugurated in November 2023.
